Report looks at pediatric heart surgery outcomes at Pennsylvania children's hospitals

The mortality rates for pediatric and congenital heart surgery performed at Pennsylvania children's hospitals were at or below risk-adjusted rates, according to a report released this week by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. The PHC4 report looks at outcomes for 10 such procedures — such as ventricular septal defect repair and complete atrioventricular canal repair — performed at five children’s hospitals in Pennsylvania and one in Delaware between 2014 and 2017. Those…
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