Evaluation of failure to rescue as a quality metric in pediatric heart surgery: An analysis of the STS congenital heart surgery database

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 573-580

  Pasquali, Sara K ^a,c   He, Xia ^c   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^d   Jacobs, Marshall L ^e   O'Brien, Sean M ^b,c   Gaynor, J William ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CHILD; CHYLOTHORAX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIALYSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUALITY CONTROL; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYSTEMIC VEIN OBSTRUCTION; TRACHEOSTOMY; VEIN OCCLUSION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84864226394     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.03.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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