National practice patterns for management of adult congenital heart disease: Operation by pediatric heart surgeons decreases in-hospital death

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2345-2352

  Karamlou, Tara ^a   Diggs, Brian S ^b   Person, Thomas ^b   Ungerleider, Ross M ^b   Welke, Karl F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Heart defects, congenital; Heart septal defects; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGEON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; THORACIC SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149133632     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.776963     Document Type: Article

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