October 7, 2004BMJOpen Access

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

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Population

Patients younger than 16 undergoing open cardiac surgical procedures in England between April 1991 and March…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

30 days

Authors

PAPaul AylinNIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre ABAlex BottleGeneral Cardiology BJB JarmanUniversity of London

Discussion

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Implication

Temporal mortality decline in pediatric cardiac surgery supports quality monitoring; leaves open causal factors in this observational cohort.

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Population

Patients younger than 16 undergoing open cardiac surgical procedures in England between April 1991 and March 2002 (n=5,221 operations in children <1 year and n=6,385 in children aged 1-15 years between April 1996 and March 2002).

Intervention

Open cardiac surgery

Outcome

Mortality in hospital within 30 days of a cardiac procedurehard clinical

Mortality for pediatric open cardiac surgery in England decreased significantly from 1991 to 2002, including marked improvements at the Bristol center.

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Aylin et al. (2004) studied this question.

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Implication

Temporal mortality decline in pediatric cardiac surgery supports quality monitoring; leaves open causal factors in this observational cohort.