Patient and procedure-related risk factors for adverse events after infrainguinal bypass.

Background: Current medical practice urges individual health care facilities and medical professionals to obtain and provide detailed insight in quality of care with the possibility of comparing data between institutions. Adverse event (AE) analysis serves as a mainstay in quality assessment in vascular surgery, but the comparison of AE data between facilities can be complex. The aim of the present study was to assess independent risk factors for AE occurrence: patient, disease and operation characteristics besides general differences between health care facilities.

The incidence of unplanned returns to the operating room after peripheral arterial bypass surgery and its value as indicator of quality of care.

Background: In recent years, a growing need has arisen to define possible indicators of quality of care.

Methods: To examine whether unplanned return to the operating room within 30 days after the initial procedure could serve as an indicator to assess quality of care in peripheral arterial bypass surgery, all bypass procedures performed between January 1996 and January 2004 were evaluated. Data were obtained from a prospectively kept hospital registration system.