Improving National Outcomes in Congenital Heart Surgery: The Time Has Come for Regionalization of Care

Carl L Backer^{1

2}, Sara K Pasquali³, Joseph A Dearani⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
² Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
³ Division of Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (S.K.P.).
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN (J.A.D.).

Carl L Backer et al. Circulation. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 24;141(12):943-945.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.045542. Epub 2020 Feb 12.

Carl L Backer^{1

2}, Sara K Pasquali³, Joseph A Dearani⁴

¹ Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
² Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (C.L.B.).
³ Division of Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (S.K.P.).
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN (J.A.D.).

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Keywords: congenital; heart diseases; pediatrics; standard of care; thoracic surgery.

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