Erschienen in:
20.03.2020 | Editorial
An Ethical Argument for Professional Regulation and Regionalization of Care in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
verfasst von:
Angira Patel, Rupali Gandhi
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Cardiology
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Ausgabe 4/2020
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Excerpt
Survival for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) has improved significantly over the last three decades. From 1979 to 1993, only 67% percent of infants with the most severe forms survived to one year of age, whereas from 1994 to 2005, 82.5% survived [
1]. Nevertheless, data show that mortality improvements for infants with CHD are not uniform across institutions and centers that perform fewer surgeries typically have higher mortality rates [
2]. …