What is it about?
We evaluate the effect of delays on adverse events while waiting for heart surgery.
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Why is it important?
We report on an observational study that prospectively followed patients from registration on a wait list to removal for planned surgery, death while waiting, or unplanned emergency surgery. Longer waiting times in the nonurgent group result in a greater cumulative incidence of death on the wait list compared to that in the semiurgent group.
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Longer waiting times offset the lower rate of emergency surgery before planned admission in the nonurgent group so that the cumulative incidence of the emergency surgery was similar to more urgent patients.
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: The occurrence of adverse events in relation to time after registration for coronary artery bypass surgery: a population-based observational study, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-8-74.
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