In‐Hospital Vital Status and Heart Transplants After Intervention for Congenital Heart Disease in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium: Completeness of Ascertainment Using the National Death Index and United Network for Organ Sharing Datasets
Spector L, Menk J, Vinocur J, Oster M, Harvey B, St. Louis J, Moller J, Kochilas L. In‐Hospital Vital Status and Heart Transplants After Intervention for Congenital Heart Disease in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium: Completeness of Ascertainment Using the National Death Index and United Network for Organ Sharing Datasets. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2016, 5: e003783. PMID: 27506544, PMCID: PMC5015299, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003783.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChild, PreschoolDatabases, FactualFemaleHeart Defects, CongenitalHeart TransplantationHospital MortalityHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInformation Storage and RetrievalLogistic ModelsMaleOdds RatioRegistriesConceptsPediatric Cardiac Care ConsortiumNational Death IndexCongenital heart diseaseOrgan Sharing datasetHeart transplantUNOS registryDeath IndexUnited NetworkHeart diseaseCare ConsortiumLong-term deathLong-term outcomesCompleteness of ascertainmentHospital deathTransplant statusVital statusNational registryCase ascertainmentCardiovascular conditionsTransplant eventsTransplantYears postinterventionRegistryDeathPatients