Mortality rates for cardiac surgery

MunoRN, RN · Feb 6, 2016

CMS collects data on CABG mortality rates by hospital, you can look at their data here https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

SororAKS, ADN, RN · Feb 6, 2016

Thanks Muno :)

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 6, 2016

You may also be able to find reports directly from the state. My state does a lot of tracking, and the results are even published in the local newspaper.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Feb 6, 2016

Although it is a commercial site, Healthgrades.com has information about providers, and hospitals about various conditions and procedures.

nutella, MSN, RN · Feb 6, 2016

I am wondering if someone knows a database or databases where I can find information about an individual hospital or programs that do cardiac surgery, in terms of mortality and complication rates?

as mentioned, "hospital compare" has a variety of data. But you also need to analyze. Not every hospital takes all patients. There are places who will perform heart surgery on patients who are pretty sick - they may do great work but their statistics may not look that good. The places that offer heart assist devices, ECMO and what not usually have a lot of really sick patient who may not have the same outcome as an otherwise healthy younger patient who just needs an easy CAGB or a valve replacement when otherwise in good shape...

offlabel · Feb 6, 2016

Doubtful you'd be able to find any meaningful data about that. Even Medicare just gives a vague 'no different from national rates' instead of an actual number. There are data bases that track that information for specific surgeons and hospitals but it's doubtful you'd get to look at them. You could call the surgeon's office directly and request that information, but l'm going to say that what you'll get is a vague 'Dr. Smith's care falls well within national rates of morbidity and mortality.'

Good luck