Table 3.
Mortality among Florida Live-Born Infants with Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) (n =3603), 1998 to 2007
| Deaths during infancy
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|---|---|---|
| n | % | |
| All (n= 3603) | 634 | 17.6 |
| Infants with timely detecteda CCHD (n= 2778) | 568 | 20.4 |
| Infants with late detected CCHD (n= 825) | 66 | 8.0 |
| Infant deaths in a non-hospital setting without hospital readmission | 7 | 0.8 |
| Infants deaths within three days of an emergent readmission | 8 | 1.0 |
| Deaths at another time during infancy | 51 | 6.2 |
a
Timely detection at the birth hospital =Any ICD-9-CM code for CCHD noted on inpatient birth hospital discharge record.