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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;21:47-49
© 2002 Elsevier Science NL

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

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

Received 27 September 2001; accepted 2 November 2001.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-773-880-4378; fax: +1-773-880-3054
e-mail: cmavroudis{at}childrensmemorial.org

In 1998, the first report of the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) National Congenital Heart Surgery Database 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 and Nomenclature Database Project. The goal was to begin the standardization of nomenclature and 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 minimal dataset, as well as the diagnosis and procedure short lists.

Key Words: Society of Thoracic Surgery • Database • Heart surgery

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