Excess costs associated with complications and prolonged length of stay after congenital heart surgery.

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Published in Ann Thorac Surg on September 04, 2014

Authors

Sara K Pasquali1, Xia He2, Marshall L Jacobs3, Samir S Shah4, Eric D Peterson2, Michael G Gaies5, Matthew Hall6, J William Gaynor7, Kevin D Hill2, John E Mayer8, Jennifer S Li2, Jeffrey P Jacobs3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Electronic address: pasquali@med.umich.edu.
2: Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
3: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
4: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
5: Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
6: Children's Hospital Association, Overland Park, Kansas.
7: Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
8: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

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