Despite the overall improvement in life expectancy of patients living with congenital heart
disease (congenital HD), disparities in morbidity and mortality remain throughout the …

Triedman and Newburger Trends in Congenital Heart Disease 2717 validating these
extraordinary procedural and technical innovations has been described and communicated …

Objective: The aim was to develop a consensus-based method of risk adjustment for in-
hospital mortality among children younger than 18 years after surgery for congenital heart …

Background: Congenital heart surgery has improved the survival of patients with even the
most complex defects, but the long-term survival after these procedures has not been fully …

Background/purpose Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) remains a significant cause of
neonatal death. A wide spectrum of disease severity and treatment strategies makes …

Background: Optimal strategies to improve national congenital heart surgery outcomes and
reduce variability across hospitals remain unclear. Many policy and quality improvement …

Objectives: STAT Mortality Categories (developed 2009) stratify congenital heart surgery
procedures into groups of increasing mortality risk to characterize case mix of congenital …

OBJECTIVE: Congenital heart surgery outcomes analysis requires reliable methods of
estimating the risk of adverse outcomes. Contemporary methods focus primarily on mortality …

Background Adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes are observed in up to 50% of infants
after complex cardiac surgery. We sought to determine the association of perioperative …

Background This study's objective was to develop a risk model incorporating procedure type
and patient factors to be used for case-mix adjustment in the analysis of hospital-specific …