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Lunch in the Heart of Sydney

Sep 04 2023
Lunch in the Heart of Sydney Friday 29th September 2023 This year the Heart Centre for Children and Kids Heart Research are coordinating our firs...

Rising Star Award

Feb 22 2022
We would like to congratulate Dr Gillian Blue from Kids Heart Research, Heart Centre for Children who was awarded the Rising Star Award at the 2021...

Team Harley - City2Surf 2017

Jun 27 2017
Mum Danielle puts it beautifully: "Why we started Team Harley: To raise awareness for Congenital Heart Disease in memory of our amazing...

Surgical Outcomes

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) is the leading clinical data registry for heart surgery, collecting surgical outcome data for participating hospitals in the USA and Canada.  The STS categorises heart surgeries by complexity and survival rates on a scale of 1-5, these categories are known as STAT categories. 

The following graph compares survival rates between the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN, Westmead and Randwick) and figures provided by STS in a 2012 peer-reviewed publication, see Jacobs et al (2012). It demonstrates that SCHN is achieving results similar to or better than the reported STS benchmark.

*Jacobs, J.P.  O'Brien, S.M. Pasquali, S.K.  Jacobs, M.L.  Lacour-Gayet, F.G.  Tchervenkov, C.I. . . . Mavroudis, C. (2012) Variation in Outcomes for Risk-Stratified Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Operations:  An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database.  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery https://doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.01.105

Survival rates are important but not the only measure of service quality. Through our service development projects we are improving patient and family experiences of care. Our integrated clinical and research programs focus on cardiac as well as other important outcomes including well-being.

If you have any questions regarding this information, please speak with your cardiologist or surgeon.

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