Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeries in Japan during 2019
Kenji Minatoya, Yukio Sato, Yasushi Toh, Tomonobu Abe, Shunsuke Endo, Yasutaka Hirata, Michiko Ishida, Hisashi Iwata, Takashi Kamei, Nobuyoshi Kawaharada, Shunsuke Kawamoto, Kohji Kohno, Hiraku Kumamaru, Goro Matsumiya, Noboru Motomura, Rie Nakahara, Morihito Okada, Hisashi Saji, Aya Saito, Hideyuki Shimizu, Kenji Suzuki, Hirofumi Takemura, Tsuyoshi Taketani, Hiroya Takeuchi, Wataru Tatsuishi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takushi Yasuda, Masayuki Watanabe, Naoki Yoshimura, Masanori Tsuchida, Yoshiki Sawa
Abstract
Survey abstractAll data on cardiovascular, general thoracic, and esophageal surgeries were obtained from the NCD. In 2018, the data collection method for general thoracic and esophageal surgeries had been modified from self-reports using questionnaire sheets following each institution belonging to the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery to an automatic package downloaded from the NCD in Japan.The data collection related to cardiovascular surgery (initially self-reported using questionnaire sheets in each participating institution up to 2014) changed to downloading an automatic package from the Japanese Cardiovascular Surgery Database (JCVSD), which is a cardiovascular subsection of the NCD in 2015.