Role of Hospital Volumes in Identifying Low-Performing and High-Performing Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgical Centers in the United States

Identifying high-performing surgical valve centers with the best surgical outcomes is challenging. Hospital surgical volume is a frequently used surrogate for outcomes. However, its ability to distinguish low-performing and high-performing hospitals remains unknown.To examine the association of hospital procedure volume with hospital performance for aortic and mitral valve (MV) surgical procedures.Within an all-payer nationally representative...