Trends in Surgery for Endocarditis: 15-Year Experience From a Statewide Quality Collaborative.

pmc-status-qastatus 0 pmc-status-live yes pmc-status-embargo no pmc-status-released yes pmc-prop-open-access yes pmc-prop-olf no pmc-prop-manuscript no pmc-prop-legally-suppressed no pmc-prop-has-pdf yes pmc-prop-has-supplement no pmc-prop-pdf-only no pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC-ND In Short ▪ Cardiac surgical operations for endocarditis steadily increased in Michigan from 2008 to 2022, accompanied by a decreasing trend in operative mortality rates, despite no significant changes in patient characteristics or the incidence of health care–associated endocarditis. ▪ Centers with higher cumulative endocarditis surgery volumes performed more complex procedures with similar crude and risk-adjusted mortality rates compared with centers with lower volumes, indicating a possible mortality benefit associated with increasing case volume.

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