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. 2023 Jan 4;2(1):100534.
doi: 10.1016/j.jscai.2022.100534. eCollection 2023 Jan-Feb.

Regionalization of Care in Congenital Interventional Cardiology

Holly Bauser-Heaton  1 , Howaida El-Said  2 , Ziyad M Hijazi  3   4 , Robert N Vincent  5 , Thomas M Zellers  6 , Frank F Ing  7 ; SCAI 2022 Think Tank Congenital Consortium: Margaret LeVasseur
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Regionalization of Care in Congenital Interventional Cardiology

Holly Bauser-Heaton et al. J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. .
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Keywords: adult congenital heart disease; centralization of care; think tank.

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Strength-weakness-opportunity-threat (SWOT) analysis on regionalization of care in congenital interventional cardiology.
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