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 Vermont Cardiothoracic Surgery Burlington, Vermont |
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WVU Heart & Vascular Institute Morgantown, West Virginia |
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Thoracic Surgery Peoria, Illinois |
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Valley Health Cardiothoracic Surgeons Winchester, Virginia |
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St. Joseph's / Candler Medical Group - Cardiothoracic Savannah, Georgia |
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CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances - Tyler Tyler, Texas |
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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Cleveland, Ohio |
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Albany Medical Center - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Albany, New York |
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Allina Health Cancer Institute - United Saint Paul, Minnesota |
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Meridian Thoracic Esophageal Surgery Manahawkin, New Jersey |
Meridian Thoracic Esophageal Surgery Brick, New Jersey |
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Emory Healthcare Atlanta, Georgia |
Emory Healthcare Atlanta, Georgia |
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Cleveland Clinic Thoracic Surgery Group Cleveland, Ohio |
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University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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Mount Auburn Hospital - Peter R. Maggs, MD Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Columbia Thoracic Associates New York, New York |
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Virtua Surgical Group - Marlton Marlton, New Jersey |
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MGH Thoracic Surgery Division Salem, Massachusetts |
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Corewell Health Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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Novant Health Thoracic Surgery Charlotte, North Carolina |
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California |
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University of Kentucky Thoracic Surgeons Lexington, Kentucky |
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Allina Health Cancer Institute - Mercy Coon Rapids, Minnesota |
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Novant Health Cardiothoracic Surgeons Winston-Salem, North Carolina |