Effect of sex and race on outcome in patients undergoing congenital heart surgery: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2054-2060

  Dibardino, Daniel J ^a   Pasquali, Sara K ^b   Hirsch, Jennifer C ^c   Benjamin, Daniel K ^b   Kleeman, Kellianne C ^c   Salazar, Jorge D ^a   Jacobs, Marshall L ^d   Mayer, John E ^e   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART SURGERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

AGE FACTORS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870004199     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.05.124     Document Type: Article

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