Impact of Telemedicine in the Screening for Congenital Heart Disease in a Center from Northeast Brazil.
To describe the incidence of congenital heart disease before and after the establishment of a telemedicine screening program, in a reference center from Northeast Brazil.



This is a descriptive, retrospective and comparative study based on the institutional data from a reference center in perinatology for a period of 16 years. Institutional data were collected from a 16-year period (2001-15). Data were divided into two periods: prior to (2001-11) and after (2012-15) the establishment of a telemedicine screening program.



After the implementation of the screening process, almost all kinds of heart disease showed a significant increase in their incidence (p  <  0.05). With this, the incidence of major heart diseases approached those specified in developed regions.



The implementation of a screening process model for congenital heart diseases can change the context of patients with congenital heart diseases in poor regions.
Círculo Do Coração De Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.|Instituto Cândida Vargas, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
Juliana Sousa Soares
JS
de Araújo
Círculo Do Coração De Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.|Instituto Cândida Vargas, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
Cláudio Teixeira
CT
Regis
Círculo Do Coração De Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Renata Grigório Silva
RG
Gomes
Círculo Do Coração De Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil felipe.a.mourato@gmail.com.
Felipe Alves
FA
Mourato
Círculo Do Coração De Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Sandra da Silva
SD
Mattos
D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017216:Telemedicine
congenital; heart defects; mass screening; telemedicine