Jennifer K. Peterson1, Yanjun Chen2, Danh V. Nguyen3, Shaun P. Setty1
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 520-532, 2017, DOI:10.1111/chd.12475
Abstract Objective: Despite overall improvements in congenital heart disease outcomes, racial and ethnic
disparities have continued. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of race and ethnicity,
as well as other risk factors on congenital heart surgery length of stay and in-hospital mortality.
Design: From the 2012 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids Inpatient Database (KID), we
identified 13 130 records with Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery complexity scoreeligible procedures. Multivariate logistic and linear regression modeling with survey weights, stratification and clustering was used to examine the relationships between predictor variables and
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