Asked and answered: is the mortality associated with cardiac surgery related to the anaesthetist and should it be used to measure anaesthetic performance?
Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. peter.alston@ed.ac.uk.
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D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*