Impacto da parceria entre banco de dados internacional e centro único de cardiologia e cirurgia cardiovascular pediátrica de referência no Brasil

Abstract

Developing countries have been dealing with several difficulties concerning congenital heart diseases. Among them is lack of control of results through some specific database. The participation in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative Database for Congenital Heart Disease (IQIC) - Improving care in low- and middle-income countries provides an opportunity to improve quality of care targeting morbidity and mortality reduction, facilitated by the establishment of parameters and objective data to evaluate treatment offered. Objective: To analyze factors in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative Database for Congenital Heart Disease (IQIC) database of a single center of cardiology and pediatric cardiovascular surgery that influenced the quality of care to patients with congenital heart disease. Casuistic and Methods: Data collection from January 2011 to December 2017 independently and with external audit by IQIC database partnership. Data included preoperative information such as demographic data, nutritional status, associated chromosomal abnormalities, Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS-1) score, as well as postoperative information such as infections, complications in the first 30 days or until hospital discharge and / or patient death. Results: In the preoperative period, there was a clear trend of increasing newborn patient cases, in detriment of those 1 to 18 years of age. There was a reduction in cases of malnutrition from 70% in 2013 to 55% in 2017. The postoperative period reveled significant variation between groups’ surgical procedures in RACHS-1 risk category (P= 0.003), prevalence of risk categories 2 and 3, as well as an increase in cases of risk categories 4,5 and 6, mainly in the last two years. Infection and mortality showed favorable results for reduction, with statistical significance for surgical site infection (P= 0.03), bacterial sepsis and other infections (both P <0.001). The 30-day postoperative follow-up showed a satisfactory evolution for discrete reduction in mortality, but not statistically significant difference in both in-hospital death (P=0.16) and 30 days (P=0.14). Conclusion: The analysis of the seven years of the IQIC database showed significant decrease in infection, increase in complexity of cases and reduction of mortality of patients with congenital heart disease in our environment.