| Trends in Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease | |||||||||
| ALL OPERATIONS | OPEN OPERATIONS | ||||||||
| All ages | OVER ONE YEAR | UNDER ONE YEAR | TOTAL | ||||||
| Year | Number | % Mortality | Number | % Mortality | Number | % Mortality | Number | % Mortality | |
| 1977 | 3344 | 10.1 | 1830 | 7.9 | 275 | 32.4 | 2105 | 11.1 | |
| 1978 | 3385 | 11.1 | 1820 | 9.3 | 333 | 38.7 | 2153 | 13.8 | |
| 1979 | 3275 | 10.5 | 1638 | 9.2 | 377 | 27.3 | 2015 | 12.6 | |
| 1980 | 3472 | 11 | 1619 | 7.7 | 390 | 32.3 | 2009 | 12.5 | |
| 1981 | 3501 | 8.9 | 1620 | 7.0 | 426 | 24.2 | 2046 | 10.6 | |
| 1982 | 3392 | 9.9 | 1565 | 7.3 | 447 | 22.3 | 2012 | 10.6 | |
| 1983 | 3719 | 10.4 | 1749 | 8.7 | 417 | 29.7 | 2166 | 12.7 | |
| 1984 | 3398 | 8.7 | 1560 | 6.9 | 431 | 21.8 | 1991 | 10.1 | |
| 1985 | 3554 | 7.6 | 1575 | 7.2 | 469 | 21.7 | 2044 | 10.6 | |
| 1986 | 3698 | 8.4 | 1511 | 7.4 | 581 | 21.2 | 2092 | 11.2 | |
| 1987 | 3696 | 8.4 | 1660 | 6.6 | 588 | 23.5 | 2248 | 11.0 | |
| 1988 | 3809 | 8.2 | 1642 | 6.9 | 708 | 19 | 2350 | 10.5 | |
| 1989 | 3474 | 8.9 | 1605 | 7.5 | 727 | 20.4 | 2332 | 11.6 | |
| 1990 | 3632 | 6.7 | 1750 | 4.2 | 770 | 15.8 | 2520 | 7.8 | |
| 1991 | 3788 | 7.8 | 1788 | 5.6 | 926 | 16.5 | 2714 | 9.3 | |
| 1992 | 3983 | 7.3 | 1874 | 5.4 | 1137 | 14.0 | 3011 | 8.6 | |
| 1993/4 | 3468 | 6.1 | 1599 | 5.4 | 1006 | 10.5 | 2605 | 7.4 | |
| 1994/5 | 3218 | 6.1 | 1410 | 3.8 | 1011 | 12.0 | 2421 | 7.4 | |
| 1995/6 | 4286 | 5.7 | 1852 | 3.3 | 1285 | 12.1 | 3137 | 6.9 | |
| 1996/7 | 3890 | 4.1 | 1507 | 3.5 | 1153 | 7.5 | 2660 | 5.2 | |
| 1997/8 | 3873 | 3.9 | 1674 | 2.9 | 1089 | 7.5 | 2763 | 4.6 | |
| 1998/9 | 3836 | 4.7 | 1596 | 2.7 | 1185 | 9.5 | 2781 | 5.6 | |
| 1999/00 | 3876 | 4.2 | 1620 | 2.7 | 1168 | 7.7 | 2788 | 4.8 | |
Lawrence and Murray ( http://www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/final_report/annex_b/images?Ukcsr_S_R.pdf ) reviewed data quality issues relating to the congenital section of the UK Cardiac Surgical Register for the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry. They concluded that there was considerable variability in the way units collected data in relation to staff, sources of data and the definitions and allocation of complex diagnoses. Since this part of the register was based on preoperative "diagnosis" rather than the "operation performed" it became difficult to analyse surgical practice as new techniques evolved. For this reason this section of the register has been abandoned and replaced by the Central Cardiac Audit Database Project (CCAD) which is a combined cardiological and cardiac surgical database funded by the Department of Health, overseen by paediatric cardiac surgeons and cardiologists and managed by the NHS Information Authority.
View the first report from the CCAD project on paediatric cardiac interventions with mortality tracking through the Office of National Statistics. This is a pdf document and will take about 2 minutes to download
