How Well Do ICD‐9‐CM Codes Predict True Congenital Heart Defects? A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‐Based Multisite Validation Project

FH Rodriguez III, CL Raskind‐Hood… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Surveillance of Congenital
Heart Defects Across the Lifespan project uses large clinical and administrative databases …

Early-onset dementia among privately-insured adults with and without congenital heart defects in the United States, 2015–2017

KF Downing, ME Oster, BS Olivari, SL Farr - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common birth defect worldwide, affecting
between 2 and 10 per thousand births globally [1]. CHD range in severity from minor defects …

Post‐traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression among adults with congenital heart defects

RM Simeone, KF Downing, WV Bobo… - Birth defects …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Due to invasive treatments and stressors related to heart health, adults with
congenital heart defects (CHDs) may have an increased risk of post‐traumatic stress …

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Usage and Death by Neighborhood Poverty Among Individuals With Congenital Heart Defects, 4 US Surveillance Sites …

CL Raskind‐Hood, V Kancherla, LC Ivey… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Socioeconomic factors may lead to a disproportionate impact on health care
usage and death among individuals with congenital heart defects (CHD) by race, ethnicity …

Anatomic and physiologic classification of adults with congenital heart disease to predict adverse outcomes: Use of administrative codes compared to clinical staging

LC Ivey, A Ahmad, J Chen, FH Rodriguez III… - American Heart …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The 2018 anatomic physiologic (AP) classification American Heart
Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) Guidelines for Adults with …

Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated with Gaps in Care in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

MB Rosamilia, J Williams, CA Bair, H Mulder… - Pediatric …, 2024 - Springer
Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) benefit from cardiology follow-up at
recommended intervals of≤ 2 years. However, benefit for children is less clear given limited …

Health Care Usage Among Adolescents With Congenital Heart Defects at 5 Sites in the United States, 2011 to 2013

GK Lui, K Sommerhalter, Y Xi, LD Botto… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background We sought to characterize health care usage for adolescents with congenital
heart defects (CHDs) using population‐based multisite surveillance data. Methods and …

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Utilization and Mortality by Neighborhood Poverty among Individuals with Congenital Heart Defects, four US Surveillance …

CL Raskind-Hood, V Kancherla, LC Ivey, F Rodriguez… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic factors may lead to a disproportionate impact on
healthcare utilization and mortality among individuals with congenital heart defects (CHD) …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention and awareness of birth defects across the lifespan using examples from congenital heart defects and spina bifida

SL Farr, C Riley, AR Van Zutphen, TJ Brei… - Birth defects …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of birth defects programs in the United States accelerated in the 1970s and
1980s due to recognition that the use of the drug thalidomide during pregnancy resulted in …

Third-Grade Academic Performance and Episodes of Cardiac Care Among Children with Congenital Heart Defects

S Watkins, AR Kemper, A D'Ottavio, TM Hoffman… - Pediatric …, 2023 - Springer
Children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) are at risk for poor academic performance.
The degree to which receipt of health care services is associated with adverse academic …