Current Assessment of Mortality Rates in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 164-171

  Welke, Karl F ^a   Shen, Irving ^a   Ungerleider, Ross M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745200044     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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