VIDEO: Public reporting of congenital heart disease outcomes should be easily understood

HOUSTON – Survival statistics, surgeon-specific experience, and complication rates are the types of information most sought by parents of children with congenital heart disease, results from a large survey suggest.

Future efforts in public reporting for congenital heart surgery outcomes should have better methods for presenting the data in a valid, easily interpreted format, explained study investigator Mallory L. Irons, MD, an integrated cardiac surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

“We’re doing a good job of public reporting currently, but what we’re doing is not meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders – in this case, the parents of children with congenital heart disease,” Dr. Irons said in an interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. “The optimal public reporting scheme still has yet to be determined.”

Dr. Irons reported having no financial disclosures.

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HOUSTON – Survival statistics, surgeon-specific experience, and complication rates are the types of information most sought by parents of children with congenital heart disease, results from a large survey suggest.

Future efforts in public reporting for congenital heart surgery outcomes should have better methods for presenting the data in a valid, easily interpreted format, explained study investigator Mallory L. Irons, MD, an integrated cardiac surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

“We’re doing a good job of public reporting currently, but what we’re doing is not meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders – in this case, the parents of children with congenital heart disease,” Dr. Irons said in an interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. “The optimal public reporting scheme still has yet to be determined.”

Dr. Irons reported having no financial disclosures.

[email protected]

HOUSTON – Survival statistics, surgeon-specific experience, and complication rates are the types of information most sought by parents of children with congenital heart disease, results from a large survey suggest.

Future efforts in public reporting for congenital heart surgery outcomes should have better methods for presenting the data in a valid, easily interpreted format, explained study investigator Mallory L. Irons, MD, an integrated cardiac surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

“We’re doing a good job of public reporting currently, but what we’re doing is not meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders – in this case, the parents of children with congenital heart disease,” Dr. Irons said in an interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. “The optimal public reporting scheme still has yet to be determined.”

Dr. Irons reported having no financial disclosures.

[email protected]