Improved prenatal detection of congenital heart disease in an integrated health care system

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 670-679

  Levy, Denis J ^a   Pretorius, Dolores H ^b   Rothman, Abraham ^c   Gonzales, Marcos ^a   Rao, Cherie ^a   Nunes, Mark E ^a   Bendelstein, Julian ^a   Mehalek, Karen ^a   Thomas, Amy ^a   Nehlsen, Candace ^a   Ehr, Jessica ^a   Burchette, Raoul J ^d   Sklansky, Mark S ^e  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Kaiser Permanente Southern California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defect; Fetal cardiac outflow tract; Fetal echocardiogram; Prenatal detection; Prenatal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CARDIOMEGALY; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEXTROCARDIA; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ECTOPIA CORDIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LIVE BIRTH; LOW RISK POPULATION; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLICY MAKING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84879503456     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0526-y     Document Type: Article

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