Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe trends in mortality of open cardiac surgery in children in Bristol and England since 1991.

Design

Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics data.

Setting

All open cardiac surgery of children in England.

Population

Patients younger than 16 undergoing open cardiac surgical procedures in England between April 1991 and March 2002. Three time periods were defined: epoch 3 (April 1991 to March 1995), epoch 5 (April 1996 to March 1999), epoch 6 (April 1999 to March 2002).

Main outcome measure

Mortality in hospital within 30 days of a cardiac procedure.

Results

We identified 5221 open operations between April 1996 and March 2002 in children under 1 year and 6385 in children aged 1-15 years. Mortality for all centres combi

SUBMITTER: Aylin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC521569 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature