welcomes you to the new, improved website!Using the STS Database, a mortality risk score was developed for adult patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. Procedure-specific outcomes differed by age category. The age-specific mortality risk score was more accurate than a score for all age categories (81% vs 78%).
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Estimating Mortality Risk for Adult Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Stephanie M. Fuller, Xia He, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Sara K. Pasquali, J. William Gaynor, Christopher E. Mascio, Kevin D. Hill, Marshall L. Jacobs, Yuli Y. Kim
