A Transfer Learning Causal Approach to Evaluate Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Variation in Outcomes Following Congenital Heart Surgery

no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Larry Han, Yi Zhang, Meena Nathan, John E. Mayer, Jr., Sara K. Pasquali, Katya Zelevinsky, Rui Duan, Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS-CHSD), we focus on a national cohort of patients undergoing the Norwood operation from 2016-2022 to assess operative mortality and morbidity outcomes across U. S. geographic regions by race/ethnicity.

Causal Inference STS +2