Case volume and mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery patients in California, 1998-2003

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2652-2659

  Bazzani, Lianna G ^a   Marcin, James P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Section of Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart defects, congenital; Hospitals; Pediatrics; Quality of health care; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 34249065192     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.678904     Document Type: Article

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