Relationship between caseload and morbidity and mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery - A four year experience

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 471-474

  Dagan, Ovadia ^a,b   Birk, Einat ^a,b   Katz, Yakov ^a,b   Gelber, Oscar ^a,b   Vidne, Bernardo ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Mortality caseload; Pediatric mobidity

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY;

CARDIAC SURGERY;

CARDIOLOGY;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BYPASS SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIALYSIS; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY CARE UNIT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; ISRAEL; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; ISRAEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0042405015     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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