Comparison of hospital episode statistics and central cardiac audit database in public reporting of congenital heart surgery mortality

British Medical Journal

Volumn 335, Issue 7623, 2007, Pages 759-762

  Westaby, Stephen ^a   Archer, Nicholas ^a   Manning, Nicola ^a   Adwani, Satish ^a   Grebenik, Catherine ^a   Ormerod, Oliver ^a   Pillai, Ravi ^a   Wilson, Neil ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA BASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CARE UNITS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348938189     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39318.644549.AE     Document Type: Article

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