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Publishing data on patient survival does not deter surgeons from taking difficult cases
Adrian O’Dowd
1 Margate
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Surgeons are taking on more high risk heart operations despite fears that publishing data on survival rates would deter them.
The latest heart surgery survival rates for the United Kingdom have been published by the NHS watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, and show continuing high rates of survival as well as numbers of operations for high risk patients that have risen since figures were first published, for the year 2004-5.
The commission said that it was pleased that initial fears that publishing data would deter surgeons from performing as many risky operations had proved unfounded.
The statistics are published on the commission’s cardiac website, set up in 2006 when heart surgery became the first specialty to publish information on survival.
The site is a joint project between the commission and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.
The website gives information on more than 35 000 heart operations
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