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Improvement in Congenital Heart Surgery in a Developing Country
Author(s) -
Luis A. Larrazábal,
Kathy J. Jenkins,
Kimberlee Gauvreau,
Vladimiro L. Vida,
Oscar J. Benavidez,
Guillermo Gaitan,
Flor Garcia,
Aldo R. Castañeda
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.107.695403
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , interquartile range , standardized mortality ratio , retrospective cohort study , receiver operating characteristic , mortality rate , pediatrics , demography , emergency medicine , surgery , sociology
In 1997, an effort was made to disseminate US pediatric cardiac surgical practices to create a new comprehensive program in Guatemala. The objective of this study was to describe the improvement of the program by exploring the reduction in risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality.

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