The learning curve in cardiac surgery
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In coronary artery surgery, mortality has been associated with the number of operations that surgeons have performed. This observation prompted Ben Bridgewater and colleagues to examine the 'learning curve' effect, by comparing mortality in patients operated on by newly appointed and established surgeons.
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