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Inpatient 30-Day Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rate for CABG

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    CABG surgery is an operation where a vein or artery from another part of the body is used to create an alternate path for blood to flow to the heart muscle, bypassing the arterial blockage. Typically, a section of one of the large (saphenous) veins in the leg, the radial artery in the arm or the mammary artery in the chest is used to construct the bypass. One or more bypasses may be performed during a single operation, since providing several routes for the blood supply to travel is believed to improve long-term success for the procedure. Triple and quadruple bypasses are often done for this reason, not necessarily because the patient’s condition is more severe. CABG surgery is one of the most common, successful major operations currently performed in the United States.

    Risk-adjusted mortality rate takes into consideration some patients admitted to SBUH are sicker than others, often having complicated medical conditions that may increase the likelihood of death. This method is applied to enable hospitals with more medically complex patients to accurately compare themselves to other hospitals throughout the state of New York.

    The risk-adjusted 30-day mortality rate for 2008 was 1.39%, among 290 patients at SBUH.

    A low score is better than a high number.

    Inpatient 30-Day Risk Adjusted Mortality Rate for CABG graph

    The SBUH 2007 score is for the period January 2007 through December 2007.
    The SBUH 2008 score is for the period January 2008 through December 2008, which is the most recent data available from the New York State Department of Health (DOH).
    The New York State average score summarizes the average of health care organizations throughout New York State reporting to the DOH for the period January 2008 through December 2008.
    N/A signifies there is no available data that summarizes results from the Top 10% of health care organizations reporting to the DOH.

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