title: Newborn heart surgery: reasonable expectations and outcomes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. jtweddell@chw.org
authors.forename: James S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Tweddell
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Spray
mesh_terms: 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*