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- Save the Children launch website designed with CORU's help
- Attempts at surgical removal are of no benefit to asbestos cancer sufferers finds trial led by CORU's Tom Treasure
- CORU's work shows effects of selective citation on surgical practice
- Pandemic flu countermeasure work published in Vaccine
- Editorial praises CORU's simple risk stratification model
- Tom Treasure's talk is ranked among top three presentations
- The Ekjut trial in India is selected as Trial of the Year!
- Christos Vasilakis gives keynote lecture at Young OR 17 conference
- CORU informs national policy on pandemic flu
- CORU work examines the foundations of triage
- Christina Pagel gives invited talk at RCM conference
- Martin Utley gives invited talk at the MASHNET workshop
- Making sense of statistics
- UCL helps engineer to heal his own heart
- Christina Pagel has paper published in The Lancet
- Martin Utley promoted to professor
- Professor Tom Treasure attends NICE International conference
- Citation for Steve Gallivan
- NCEPOD report highlights concerns over chemotherapy
- CORU 25 year celebration
- Marfan aortic aneurysm: Golesworthy wins Healthcare Award
- CORU projections of skilled birth attendance rates in world's poorest regions published
- CORU's Skilled Birth Attendance paper is a BMC Highly Accessed paper!
- CORU's visual outcome monitoring tool (VLAD) goes global!
- Number of people living with cancer set to increase significantly
- CORU article highlights challenges in implementing modelling toolkits
- Health financing website receives positive feedback!
- Is surgery to remove secondary cancer always a good thing?
- Sonya Crowe awarded Improvement Science Fellowship by the Health Foundation!
- CORU work helps child heart teams get clearer picture of their results
CORU work helps child heart teams get clearer picture of their results
5 April 2013
For the first time, teams that care for children needing heart surgery have been able to review their short-term results across all the different operations they perform.
Graphic data charts, devised by analysts at CORU, allow clinicians to spot and investigate trends in survival and explore promptly any concerns.
Published in the journal Heart, a recent CORU paper describes how charts showing survivals to, and deaths within, 30 days of surgery are being generated and studied by teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina Children’s Hospital in London and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.
Importantly, the charts account for the very different levels of risk faced by different children - from under one percent estimated risk of death to more than 25% - to help hospital teams spot any underlying trends. The risk estimates come from peer-reviewed work published by CORU (and co-authors) last year using UK national data.
Following this successful implementation, we have now updated both the risk model and the software for implementing it. The software is licensed by UCL Business and ready for UK child heart units to use. For more information on this please see our webpage on PRAiS.
The full UCL news story can be seen here.
