Eliminating Postoperative Infections on a Budget: Collaborative Quality Improvement for Congenital Heart Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Affiliations

¹ From the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor (M.G.); Cardiothoracic ICU, National University Health System, Singapore (G.M.); and Paediatric ICU, Royal Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia (G.M.). mgaies@med.umich.edu.
² From the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor (M.G.); Cardiothoracic ICU, National University Health System, Singapore (G.M.); and Paediatric ICU, Royal Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia (G.M.).

Editorial

Michael Gaies et al. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2017 Apr.

. 2017 Apr;10(4):e003708.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.003708.

¹ From the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor (M.G.); Cardiothoracic ICU, National University Health System, Singapore (G.M.); and Paediatric ICU, Royal Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia (G.M.). mgaies@med.umich.edu.
² From the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor (M.G.); Cardiothoracic ICU, National University Health System, Singapore (G.M.); and Paediatric ICU, Royal Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia (G.M.).

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; bacteremia; critical illness; infection; quality improvement; sepsis.

Comment on

Postoperative Infection in Developing World Congenital Heart Surgery Programs: Data From the International Quality Improvement Collaborative.
Sen AC, Morrow DF, Balachandran R, Du X, Gauvreau K, Jagannath BR, Kumar RK, Kupiec JK, Melgar ML, Chau NT, Potter-Bynoe G, Tamariz-Cruz O, Jenkins KJ. Sen AC, et al. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2017 Apr;10(4):e002935. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.002935. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2017. PMID: 28408715