Publications by authors named "A M D'Ottavio"
Sociodemographic factors influence outcomes in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). We predict an association between measures of social isolation and outcomes in infants with complex CHD. These measures, racial (RI) and educational (EI) isolation range from 0 to 1, with 0 being no isolation and 1 being fully isolated within a specific population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sociodemographic factors influence outcomes in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). We predict an association between measures of social isolation and outcomes in infants with complex CHD. These measures, racial (RI) and educational (EI) isolation range from 0 to 1, with 0 being no isolation and 1 being fully isolated within a specific population.
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- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database is a major global resource on congenital heart surgeries, but lacks data on complications, comorbidities, and long-term patient outcomes.
- This study assessed how effectively this database could be linked to hospital electronic health records in North Carolina and Georgia, using both indirect and direct identifiers.
- Results showed that indirect linkage matched 79% of admissions, while direct methods achieved up to 99.5% success, demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating surgical data with electronic records for better patient care insights.
Background: Despite advances in treatment and survival, individuals with congenital heart defects (CHD) have a higher risk of heart failure (HF) compared to the general population.
Objective: To evaluate comorbidities associated with HF in patients with CHD with a goal of identifying potentially modifiable risk factors that may reduce HF-associated morbidity and mortality.
Methods: Five surveillance sites in the United States linked population-based healthcare data and vital records.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Usage and Death by Neighborhood Poverty Among Individuals With Congenital Heart Defects, 4 US Surveillance Sites, 2011 to 2013.
J Am Heart Assoc
June 2024
Background: Socioeconomic factors may lead to a disproportionate impact on health care usage and death among individuals with congenital heart defects (CHD) by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors. How neighborhood poverty affects racial and ethnic disparities in health care usage and death among individuals with CHD across the life span is not well described.
Methods And Results: Individuals aged 1 to 64 years, with at least 1 CHD-related () code were identified from health care encounters between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, from 4 US sites.