Despite the overall improvement in life expectancy of patients living with congenital heart
disease (congenital HD), disparities in morbidity and mortality remain throughout the …

The congenital heart care community faces a myriad of public health issues that act as
barriers toward optimum patient outcomes. In this article, we attempt to define advocacy and …

Background: Optimal strategies to improve national congenital heart surgery outcomes and
reduce variability across hospitals remain unclear. Many policy and quality improvement …

Background Neonates with tetralogy of Fallot and symptomatic cyanosis (sTOF) require
early intervention. Objectives This study sought to perform a balanced multicenter …

Advances made in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery and critical care have significantly
improved the survival rate of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) leading to an …

Background Length of stay (LOS) has been proposed as a quality metric in congenital heart
surgery, but LOS may be influenced by parental socioeconomic position (SEP). We aimed to …

Objective To summarize existing literature on neonatal disparities in congenital heart
disease surgical outcomes and identify potential policies to address these disparities …

Feature Editor's Note—The Congenital editors of the Journal encourage open, productive
discourse on the structure of the system of care in which congenital heart surgery is …

Background Over 150 hospitals perform congenital heart surgery (CHS) in the United States.
Many hospitals are close together, with a median patient travel distance of 38.5 miles. We …

Objective This study aimed to provide an insight into the impact of the early outbreak of the
novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the care management for patients with congenital heart …