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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) mortality rate

Legend for Risk Adjusted Rates:

BLUE

Better than the British Columbia average for the selected year.

WHITE

Not different from the British Columbia average for the selected year.

RED

Worse than the British Columbia average for the selected year.

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) mortality rate

Deaths due to surgery performed to allow blood to bypass a clogged artery. Lower rates are more desirable.

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Rank

Score

Risk adjusted (%)

St. Paul's Hospital

100

3.50%

Royal Columbian Hospital

5.01%

Vancouver General Hospital

5.42%

Victoria General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals

7.52%

British Columbia average

5.14%

DEFINITIONS:

Rank	All institutions were ranked on each indicator based on their scores, where the highest rank of 1 corresponds to the highest score out of 100. Volume indicators were not ranked since they have threshold requirements.
Score	The score indicates how well a hospital performs on a given indicator, based on its risk adjusted rate where a score of 100 is the highest.
Risk adjusted rate	Measures the observed rate adjusted for differences in patients’ age, sex, and the presence of complications.
Observed rate	Measures outcome of interest compared to population at risk.
British Columbia average/total	This value is the risk adjusted average (British Columbia average) or total (British Columbia total) of an indicator across all acute care hospitals in British Columbia.