TABLE 3.

Cardiac surgeon suggestions on improvements for the coronary artery bypass graft surgery report card in Ontario

You need to have independent data collectors who do not have any vested interests in a given institution...Strict guidelines for assessing hospital charts for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, peripheral vascular disease, etc

More data is always better. Often, data collected preoperatively at referral need to be continuously updated throughout the stay to ensure that it is properly coded

Long-term outcomes are important

There is no score for diffuseness of [coronary] disease, this is very hard to objectively score, yet likely an important predictor of outcome

Despite benefits described in the literature about advances such as point-of-care blood testing or continuous dialysis, present monitoring has not given any ammunition to obtain these products

Add valve surgery and other complex procedures