Age at referral and mortality from critical congenital heart disease

Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fixler, David E ^a   Xu, Ping ^b   Nembhard, Wendy N ^b   Ethen, Mary K ^c   Canfield, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Epidemiology; Health policy and outcome research; Neonatal mortality

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYANOSIS; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; ETHNICITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULSE OXIMETRY; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY AND OUTCOME RESEARCH; NEONATAL MORTALITY;

AGE FACTORS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXIMETRY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84904165708     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-2895     Document Type: Article

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