Trends in In-hospital Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Mortality by Gender and Race/Ethnicity --1998-2015: Why Do the Differences Remain?

Background And Aims: Between 1998 and 2015, the national coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in-hospital mortality rate fell nearly 45% to just 2.2% of CABG in-patients. By almost any standards, this large decline in the nation's in-hospital mortality for CABG inpatients has been extraordinary.