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. 2017 Jul-Aug;32(4):260–269. doi: 10.21470/1678-9741-2016-0074
Abbreviations, acronyms & symbols    
ABC = Aristotle Basic Complexity   LR = Likelihood ratio
ACC = Aristotle Comprehensive Complexity   PC4 = Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium
AUC = Area under the curve    RACHS = Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery
CHD = Congenital heart disease   REDCap = Research Electronic Data Capture
CHSS = Congenital Heart Surgeons Society   ROC = Receiver-operator characteristics
CNPq = National Council for Scientific and Technological Development   SIR = Standardized infection ratio
DATASUS = National Health System database   SMR = Standardized mortality ratios
FAPESP = São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support   STS = Society of Thoracic Surgeons
IaaS = Infrastructure as a service   USP = University of São Paulo
 IQIC = International Quality Improvement Collaborative     VIS = Vasoactive-inotropic scores