Newborn heart surgery: reasonable expectations and outcomes.
This article discusses the necessity for standards for reasonable expectations and outcomes for neonatal treatment of congenital heart disease and the databases that allow such standards to be measured and to be compared among treatment centers.
Tweddell
James S
JS
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. jtweddell@chw.org
Spray
Thomas L
TL
D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*