General Thoracic Surgery Public Reporting
The STS General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD) contains information on surgical procedures submitted by participants—most often a hospital cardiothoracic surgery department or cardiothoracic surgery group at one or more hospitals; in some instances, a participant may be an individual surgeon.
STS publicly reports participant results for lobectomy for lung cancer and esophagectomy. STS Public Reporting is limited to participants in the US and Canada.
Lobectomy for lung cancer outcomes for GTSD participants are better than national averages. Thus, for the purposes of public reporting, STS believes it is appropriate to present a comparison of GTSD and national outcomes to demonstrate the high performance of GTSD participants.
STS selected the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) as a comparator database to best represent national outcomes. Maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient database available in the United States and represents a 20% stratified sample of all hospital discharges from nonfederal facilities. The NIS database includes approximately 8 million inpatient hospital discharge abstracts collected annually for patients of all ages and all sources of insurance. Each discharge record includes a weight that represents the relative proportion of the total US hospital patient population accounted for by that record. This dataset is broadly representative of individuals in the US population who were hospitalized during a given year and is the most generalizable data to represent national lung cancer resection outcomes.
NOTE: Results are based on a participant’s unique group of patients (known as case mix) and the number of surgical procedures in each category. Results and star ratings published are specific to the participant listed and are not intended for direct comparison to other participants.
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University of Iowa Surgical Associates Iowa City, Iowa |
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University of Colorado School of Medicine - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Denver, Colorado |
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University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, Illinois |
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University of Alabama Health System Birmingham, Alabama |
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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Cleveland, Ohio |
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University Hospital and Clinics - UHealth Tower Miami, Florida |
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University Heart Surgeons Knoxville, Tennessee |
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UMass Memorial Medical Center Worcester, Massachusetts |
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UF Health Shands Gainesville, Florida |
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UCSF General Thoracic Surgery Registry San Francisco, California |
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UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica Santa Monica, California |
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UC San Diego Division Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery San Diego, California |
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UC Davis Health - General Thoracic Surgery Sacramento, California |
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Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Pontiac, Michigan |
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Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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Tidal Health Peninsula Regional Thoracic Surgery Salisbury, Maryland |
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Thoracic Surgeons of Keck Hospital at USC Los Angeles, California |
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery Abington, Pennsylvania |
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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The Valley Hospital Ridgewood, New Jersey |
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The University of Kansas Hospital Kansas City, Kansas |
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The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano Plano, Texas |
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The George Washington University Hospital Washington, District of Columbia |
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Stony Brook University Hospital - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Stony Brook, New York |