Does participation in a collaborative quality improvement project and registry reduce mortality and infections in patients undergoing congenital heart surgery in the developing world?
Collaborative quality improvement projects and registries are associated with reduced mortality and infections after congenital heart surgery in developing nations.
Congenital heart surgery risk-adjusted mortality and infections were reduced in developing world programs participating in the collaborative quality improvement project and registry. Similar strategies might allow rapid reduction in global health care disparities.
Jenkins et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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