1. Complications and Risk Factors for Mortality During Congenital Heart Surgery Admissions 
Oscar J. Benavidez, MD, MPP, Kimberlee Gauvreau, ScD, Pedro Del Nido, MD, Emile Bacha, MD, Kathy J. Jenkins, MD, MPH 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 84, Issue 1, Pages (July 2007)
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2. Fig 1
Conceptual framework of congenital heart surgery admissions and the relationship of complication diagnoses and death risk. Patients undergoing congenital heart surgery have a baseline risk for mortality during admissions for congenital heart surgery (solid line) based on a number of risk factors (age, gender, surgical case complexity, prematurity, presence of major noncardiac structural anomalies, race, insurance type, hospital surgical volume). We hypothesize the presence of a complication diagnosis will increase the risk for death independently of other known death risk factors (striped line). That is, complication diagnoses shift this baseline death risk up higher, regardless of patient risk factors.
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