Improving National Outcomes in Congenital Heart Surgery: The Time Has Come for Regionalization of Care
Circulation
.
2020 Mar 24;141(12):943-945.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.045542.
Epub 2020 Feb 12.
Authors
Carl L Backer
1
2
,
Sara K Pasquali
3
,
Joseph A Dearani
4
Affiliations
1
Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
2
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
3
Division of Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (S.K.P.).
4
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN (J.A.D.).
PMID:
32078377
DOI:
10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.045542
No abstract available
Keywords:
congenital; heart diseases; pediatrics; standard of care; thoracic surgery.
MeSH terms
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods*
Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
Humans