Risk-adjusted percent of patients undergoing index pediatric and/or congenital heart surgery who die, including both 1) all deaths occurring during the hospitalization in which the procedure was performed, even if after 30 days (including patients transferred to other acute care facilities), and 2) those deaths occurring after discharge from the hospital, but within 30 days of the procedure
Number of patients undergoing index pediatric and/or congenital heart surgery who die, including both 1) all deaths occurring during the hospitalization in which the procedure was performed, even if after 30 days (including patients transferred to other acute care facilities), and 2) those deaths occurring after discharge from the hospital, but within 30 days of the procedure
Denominator
1.15 Denominator
All patients undergoing index pediatric and/or congenital heart surgery
Exclusions
Exclusions
- Patients weighing less than or equal to 2,500 grams undergoing isolated patent arterial duct (PDA) ligation as their primary procedure are excluded. We acknowledge that mortality after surgical PDA closure in low-birth weight premature infants can be related to surgical judgment or technique; however, the vast majority of deaths in this patient population are multi-factorial and largely unrelated to the surgical procedure in time and by cause. Therefore, because mortality in this patient group could potentially impact significantly on the expression of overall programmatic mortality, a decision was made to exclude from mortality analysis patients weighing less than or equal to 2,500 g undergoing PDA ligation as their primary procedure. - All operations where the primary procedure is either pectus repair or bronchoscopy are not classified as cardiac operations (i.e., they are thoracic procedures) and thus, they are excluded from the denominator
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