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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Jul 22;102(5):1580–1587. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.04.034

Table 6.

Power Calculation

Overall
unadjusted
mortality
rate
Center-level
volume (N)
needed to detect a
doubling of
mortality rate
N(%) of centers
meeting volume
threshold
(1 year of data)
N (%) of centers
meeting volume
threshold
(4 years of data)
All
Operations
3.3% 256 23 (24%) 74 (78%)
Benchmark
Operations
3.0% 285 0 (0%) 33 (35%)

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