| dc.description.abstract | Background: The Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS-1) system has been used as a benchmark to compare surgical results in developed countries. Its ability to stratify postoperative mortality risk has been validated in several developed countries, however, this has not been examined in a developing country.
Objectives: To assess the ability of the RACHS-1 system to stratify postoperative mortality risk in a developing country.
Design: Retrospective study over a five year period between 1st January 2002 and 31s1
December 2006.
Setting: Kenyatta National Hospital, a teaching and referral hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. | en_US |
