The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database 2016 Annual Report Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD, David M. Shahian, MD, Richard L. Prager, MD, Fred H. Edwards, MD, Donna McDonald, RN, MPH, Jane M. Han, MSW, Richard S. D'Agostino, MD, Marshall L. Jacobs, MD, Benjamin D. Kozower, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD, Vinod H. Thourani, MD, Henning A. Gaissert, MD, Felix G. Fernandez, MD, Cameron D. Wright, MD, Gaetano Paone, MD, Joseph C. Cleveland, MD, J. Matthew Brennan, MD, Rachel S. Dokholyan, MPH, Leo Brothers, MPH, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, MD, Robert H. Habib, PhD, Sean M. O’Brien, PhD, Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, Frederick L. Grover, MD, G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Joseph E. Bavaria, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 102, Issue 6, Pages 1790-1797 (December 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.015 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 This figure depicts three goals of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database: the intersecting domains of outcomes, quality, and research. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, 1790-1797DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.015) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions