Defining Proficiency for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Participants Performing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Varun Puri, MD, MSCI, Henning A. Gaissert, MD, David W. Wormuth, MD, Eric L. Grogan, MD, MPH, William R. Burfeind, MD, Andrew C. Chang, MD, Christopher W. Seder, MD, Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSCI, Lisa Brown, MD, MAS, Mitchell J. Magee, MD, Andrzej S. Kosinski, PhD, Daniel P. Raymond, MD, Stephen R. Broderick, MD, Robert J. Welsh, MD, Malcolm M. DeCamp, MD, Farhood Farjah, MD, MPH, Melanie A. Edwards, MD, Benjamin D. Kozower, MD, MPH The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 202-208 (January 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.07.074 Copyright © 2019 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Risk adjusted cumulative sum (Cusum) curves demonstrating three distinct patterns of performance for major morbidity at centers performing video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy. In these plots, an increment (upward spike) represents a failure, whereas a decrement signifies a success. The plots show three individual participants from the highest-volume group. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2019 107, 202-208DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.07.074) Copyright © 2019 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions