The number of postoperative surgical or diagnostic procedures following congenital heart surgery correlates with both mortality and hospital length of stay.
Lou CapecciRichard D MainwaringR Thomas CollinsDoug SidellElisabeth MartinJohn J LambertiFrank L HanleyPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2022)
The data demonstrate that the number of postoperative procedures was highly correlated with both hospital length of stay and mortality.