Making sense of congenital cardiac disease with a research database: The Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Data Center

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 18, Issue S2, 2008, Pages 152-162

  Hickey, Edward J ^a   McCrindle, Brian W ^a   Caldarone, Christopher A ^a   Williams, William G ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^b  

^a John W Kirklin Fellow of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Data Center   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of time related events; bootstrap bagging; competing risks; parametric; research database

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 63849227493     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951108002849     Document Type: Article

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