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HEART & VASCULAR
Volumes and outcomes from a sampling of centers in Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute
Thoracic Surgery in 2017
BUSY. 1,819
HIGH-QUALITY
The following stats for Cleveland Clinic (“participant”) are from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database (3-year period ending 12/31/2017).
Eligible procedures
427
STS mean
participant score
97.7%
Participant score
98.6%
Participant rating
(highest)
Number of thoracic operations — our highest annual volume to date
Lobectomy for Lung Cancer Composite Quality Rating
Eligible procedures
187
STS mean
participant score
89.7%
Participant rating
(highest)
Participant score
94.4%
Eligible procedures
589
Risk-adjusted rate
5.8%
Standardized incidence ratio
Unadjusted rate
5.3%
Eligible procedures
187
STS mean
participant score
89.7%
Participant rating
(highest)
Participant score
94.4%
Esophagectomy Composite Quality Rating
Vitals
INCREASINGLY LESS
INVASIVE
88
Percentage of lobectomies for
stage I lung cancer (N = 104)
that used video- or robot-assisted
thoracoscopic surgery
Combined Morbidity/30-Day Mortality
for Pulmonary Resections
94
03
Median length of stay, in days, following lobectomy
Percentage of surgical achalasia cases (N = 121) treated robotically or with per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) or laparoscopic Heller myotomy
Lung Transplantation
in 2017
129
Number of lung transplants performed — the second-highest volume in the U.S.
84 bilateral | 45 single
Graft survival rates*
1,710
Cumulative number of lung transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic through 2017 — among the most anywhere in the world
346
Number of patients evaluated for lung transplantation
Time frame
1 year
Report dates
7/1/14-12/31/16
National
88.02%
Expected
88.12%
Observed
88.39%
3 year
69.33%
70.71%
69.77%
1/1/12-6/30/14
Patient survival rates*
Time frame
1 year
Expected
88.45%
Observed
89.11%
National
88.58%
Report dates
7/1/14-12/31/16
3 year
71.26%
71.76%
71.57%
1/1/12-6/30/14
*From the most recent Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data release.
Snapshots of Unique Populations in 2017
Pericardial Disease
2,409
Number of visits to Pericardial Disease Center
>50%
Growth in visit volume since 2012
43
Number of pericardiectomies performed
Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
177
Number of septal myectomies
performed
0.6%
Operative mortality for septal myectomies
Cardio-Oncology
1,573
Number of echoes performed
for cardio-oncology patients
12%
Increase in echoes over 2016
0.70