RT Book, Section
A1 Jin, Ruyun
A1 Grunkemeier, Gary L.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
SR Print(0)
ID 55912307
T1 Chapter 8. Statistical Treatment of Surgical Outcome Data
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163310-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55912307
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  results  (outcome)  of  cardiac  surgery  can  be  measured  in  several  ways.  The  type  of  variable  used  as  the  measure  of  a  particular  outcome  determines  the  statistical  methods  that  should  be  used  for  its  analysis.  For  example,  some  administrative  outcomes  are  captured  by  continuous  variables,  such  as  hospital  charges  (in  dollars)  or  length  of  stay  (in  days).  Other  outcomes  are  collected  as  categorical  variables,  such  as  discharge  destination  (eg,  acute-care  facility,  specialized  nursing  facility,  or  home).  Health-related  quality  of  life  is  another  kind  of  outcome,  which  is  often  measured  by  the  Medical  Outcome  Study  (MOS)  36-Item  Short-Form  Health  Survey  (SF-36),1  the  Sickness  Impact  Profile,2  or  disease-specific  quality-of-life  measures,  and  can  be  transferred  to  quality-adjusted  life  years  (QALYs).3  Economic  endpoints  have  been  used  increasingly,  such  as  cost-effective  ratio.4