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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Sep 24;146(6):1387–1392.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.07.077

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Institutional risk-adjusted cumulative sum (Cusum). Left, Unadjusted Cusum shows that an unacceptable threshold (red lines) was crossed at 32 cases (indicated by *), and only acceptable thresholds (gray lines) are crossed in subsequent cases, indicating proficient performance beyond 32 cases. Right, Risk-adjusted Cusum shows an unacceptable threshold crossed at 22 cases (indicated by *) with subsequent proficiency.