The New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received an $8.5 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance research on long-term outcomes in children with congenital heart disease.
The project, led by Brett Anderson, MD, builds on a previous initiative that linked clinical and insurance data across New York congenital heart centers to study how healthcare systems impact pediatric outcomes, according to a Jan. 7 news release.
Earlier findings showed significant variation in healthcare use among children on Medicaid and suggested that provider-related factors explained up to 20% of outcome differences.
With the new funding, the research network, now expanded to 25 centers across New York, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas, will create a national data resource to examine how system-level factors influence outcomes following pediatric heart surgery.
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