Increased short- and long-term mortality at low-volume pediatric heart transplant centers: Should minimum standards be set?: Retrospective data analysis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-401

  Davies, Ryan R ^a   Russo, Mark J ^b   Hong, Kimberly N ^b   Mital, Seema ^c   Mosca, Ralph S ^d   Quaegebeur, Jan M ^b   Chen, Jonathan M ^b,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGIONALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79151473566     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31820700cc     Document Type: Article

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