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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1016-1018
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Special report: congenital heart surgery database update

Congenital heart surgery nomenclature and database project: update and proposed data harvest

^a Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiac Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
^b Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, All Children’s Hospital, University of South Florida College of Medicine, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
^c Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
^d Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, England, UK
^e Cardiac Surgery, Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
^f Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
^g Cardiac Surgery, Memorial Hospital Child’s Health Centre, Warsaw, Poland
^h Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Accepted for publication November 15, 2001.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Gaynor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
e-mail: gaynor{at}email.chop.edu

Abstract

The first report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Congenital Heart Surgery Database in 1998 reported the clinical features of 18 congenital heart categories. The report provided a significant amount of important information and also highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the existing database. Following this report the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Committee in cooperation with the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Foundation initiated the International Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project. The goal was to begin the standardization of nomenclature reporting strategies and establish the foundations for an international congenital heart surgery database. The first report of the International Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature Project was published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery in April 2000. The current report outlines modifications to the minimum dataset as well as the diagnoses and procedure short lists. Plans for the next STS National Congenital Heart Surgery Database harvest are also presented.

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