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.

STS Public Reporting is voluntary, meaning that all participants listed on this website have allowed STS to publish their ratings. You can search for results by surgical procedure, group name, and/or location.

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Yale - New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut
Name
Yale - New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut
WVU Heart & Vascular Institute
Morgantown, West Virginia
Name
WVU Heart & Vascular Institute
Morgantown, West Virginia
White Plains Hospital Division of Thoracic Surgery
White Plains, New York
Name
White Plains Hospital Division of Thoracic Surgery
White Plains, New York
White Plains Hospital Division of Thoracic Surgery
White Plains, New York
Virtua Surgical Group - Marlton
Marlton, New Jersey
Name
Virtua Surgical Group - Marlton
Marlton, New Jersey
VCU Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Richmond, Virginia
Name
VCU Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Richmond, Virginia
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Name
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Valley Health Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Winchester, Virginia
Name
Valley Health Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Winchester, Virginia
Utah Valley Heart & Lung Associates
Provo, Utah
Name
Utah Valley Heart & Lung Associates
Provo, Utah
UR Medicine Surgery: Thoracic & Foregut Division
Rochester, New York
Name
UR Medicine Surgery: Thoracic & Foregut Division
Rochester, New York
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Name
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Erie, Pennsylvania
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Altoona, Pennsylvania
UPMC Department of Thoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin Hospital
Madison, Wisconsin
Name
University of Wisconsin Hospital
Madison, Wisconsin
University of Virginia Health
Charlottesville, Virginia
Name
University of Virginia Health
Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Vermont Cardiothoracic Surgery
Burlington, Vermont
Name
University of Vermont Cardiothoracic Surgery
Burlington, Vermont
University of Utah Health Surgical Associates
Salt Lake City, Utah
Name
University of Utah Health Surgical Associates
Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Dallas, Texas
Name
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Dallas, Texas
University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center General Thoracic Surgeons
Houston, Texas
Name
University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center General Thoracic Surgeons
Houston, Texas
University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Name
University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Name
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Kentucky Thoracic Surgeons
Lexington, Kentucky
Name
University of Kentucky Thoracic Surgeons
Lexington, Kentucky