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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Improving postoperative outcomes in a Brazilian hospital through educational programs based on reports of an international database in cardiac surgery
Authors:
Pedro Gabriel M de BE Silva, Antonio Baruzzi, Denise Ramos, Giuliano Generoso, Jose Teixeira, Marcelo Jamus, Mariana Okada, Nilza Lasta, Thiago A Macedo, Valter Furlan
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Multicenter databases are useful tools for quality improvement programs. Most of this evidence is based on studies in North America and Europe and little is known in other regions. Since 2011, a Brazilian private cardiovascular center has joined an international registry of cardiac surgeries. …