title: Quality control in cardiovascular surgery: a new paradigm.
abstract: The objective is to write a literature review of the relevant information related to quality control in cardiovascular surgery. The authors have studied several parameters to allow quality control in cardiovascular surgery: 1. Construction of a database as complete as possible to the similar ones of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery; 2. To create a surgical risk model like the Euroscore; 3. To make an analysis of the different reasons for a poor surgical outcomes and try to correct them; 4. To study the human factor as an important element to the surgical outcome and discuss methods to avoid erros in an action similar to the ones used in aviation. Enabling a tight control of quality in cardiovascular surgery it is possible to obtain a major improvement in surgical outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. hmurad@hucff.ufrj.br
authors.forename: Henrique
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murad
authors.forename: Felipe Francescutti
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Murad
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment