Real time monitoring of risk-adjusted paediatric cardiac surgery outcomes using variable life-adjusted display: implementation in three UK centres

2490 30-day episodes of care in paediatric patients (≤16 years) undergoing cardiac surgery across 3 UK specialist centres between Jan 2010 and Dec 2011. Excluded: patients over 16, non-cardiac procedures, or catheter-only procedures.

Implementation of routine in-house monitoring using variable life-adjusted display (VLAD) charts based on the partial risk adjustment in surgery (PRAiS) risk model.

Risk-adjusted 30-day mortality following paediatric cardiac surgeryhard clinical