Algorithmic complexity stratification for congenital heart disease patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) encompasses a huge variety of rare diagnoses that range in complexity and comorbidity. To help build clinical guidelines, plan health services and conduct statistically powerful research on such a disparate set of diseases there have been various attempts to group pathologies into mild, moderate, or severe disease. So far, however, these complexity scores have required manual specialist input for every case, and are therefore missing in large databases where this is impractical, or quickly outdated when guidelines are revised.

Methods

We used the up-to-date European Society of Cardiology guidelines to create an algorithm to assign complexity scores to CHD patients using only their diagnosis list. Two CHD specialists then independentl

SUBMITTER: Chami J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11657542 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature