Risk adjustment for cardiac surgery in adults with congenital heart disease: what do we know and what do we need to learn?

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Congenital Heart Center, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Services, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Editorial

Jeffrey P Jacobs et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 1;60(6):1405-1407.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab266.

¹ Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Congenital Heart Center, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Services, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Keywords: Adults with Congenital Heart Disease; Risk adjustment; Risk modeling; Risk stratification.

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