Children and adults with congenital heart disease lost to follow-up: Who and when?

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 302-309

  Mackie, Andrew S ^a,b   Ionescu Ittu, Raluca ^a,b,c   Therrien, Judith ^a,b   Pilote, Louise ^b,c   Abrahamowicz, Michal ^b,c   Marelli, Ariane J ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adults; Congenital heart disease; Continuity of care; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY MALFORMATION; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249106267     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.839464     Document Type: Article

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