Comparative Study of the Aristotle Comprehensive Complexity and the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery Scores

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
2876919	The Annals of Thoracic Surgery	2011	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The ACC was a better predictor of operative mortality and length of intensive care unit stay than RACHS-1. In order to achieve similar performance, regression models including RACHS-1 need to be further adjusted on age, prematurity, and major extracardiac abnormalities.

Keywords

CAVC EACTS RACHS-1 MBTS VSD PAPVC Common atrioventricular canal ABC IQR TOF TCPA REV STS ACC TAPVC ROC ECMO ASO bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection standard deviation extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ICU intensive care unit right ventricle Tetralogy of Fallot Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery The Society of Thoracic Surgeons modified Blalock-Taussig shunt Pulmonary artery arterial switch operation confidence interval interquartile range Likelihood ratio hazard ratio odds ratio Ventricular septal defect atrial septal defect ASD receiver operating characteristics total anomalous pulmonary venous connection