Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: Details of risk adjustment tools were not given

BMJ

Volumn 330, Issue 7481, 2005, Pages 43-

  Parry, Gareth ^a   Draper, Elizabeth S ^b   Mckinney, Patricia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WALES;

EID: 16544390918     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.43-b     Document Type: Letter

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