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Anderson BR, Blancha Eckels VL, Crook S, Duchon JM, Kalfa D, Bacha EA, Krishnamurthy G. The Risks of Being Tiny: The Added Risk of Low Weight for Neonates Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery. Pediatr Cardiol. 2020 Dec;41(8):1623-1631. doi: 10.1007/s00246-020-02420-0. Epub 2020 Jul 29. PubMed PMID: 32729052; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7704774.

Lewis MJ, Anderson BR, Fremed M, Argenio M, Krishnan U, Weller R, Levasseur S, Sommer R, Lytrivi ID, Bacha EA, Vincent J, Chung WK, Rosenzweig EB, Starc TJ, Rosenbaum M. Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Across the Lifespan: The Experience of an Academic Congenital Heart Disease Center in New York City. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Dec;9(23):e017580. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.017580. Epub 2020 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 33196343; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7763774.

Woo J, Butler A, Jayaram N, Karamlou T, LaPar D, Anderson BR. Center reputation and experience relate to industry payments to congenital heart disease providers. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Nov 4;. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.10.012. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33159864.

Anderson BR, Ivascu NS, Brodie D, Weingarten JA, Manoach SM, Smith AJ, Millerman K, Yip NH, Su G, Kleinschmidt C, Khusid F, Olson M, Hochman BR, Hill LL, Burkart KM. Breaking Silos: The Team-Based Approach to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Staffing. Crit Care Explor. 2020 Nov;2(11):e0265. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000265. eCollection 2020 Nov. PubMed PMID: 33163970; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7641426.

Woo JL, Anderson BR. Administrators: Do you know how your pediatric cardiac surgeries are reimbursed? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Sep;160(3):e153-e154. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.03.147. Epub 2020 Apr 13. PubMed PMID: 32417049; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7434647.

Anderson BR, Gotlieb EG, Hill K, McHugh KE, Scheurer MA, Mery CM, Pelletier GJ, Kaltman JR, White OJ, Trachtenberg FL, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, McCrindle BW, Sylvester DM, Eckhauser AW, Pasquali SK, Anderson JB, Schamberger MS, Shashidharan S, Jacobs JP, Jacobs ML, Boskovski M, Newburger JW, Nathan M. Registry-based trials: a potential model for cost savings? Cardiol Young. 2020 Jun;30(6):807-817. doi: 10.1017/S1047951120001018. Epub 2020 May 8. PubMed PMID: 32605679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7682727.

Woo JL, Anderson BR, Gruenstein D, Conti R, Chua KP. Minimum Travel Distance Among Publicly Insured Infants with Severe Congenital Heart Disease: Potential Impact of In-state Restrictions. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019 Dec;40(8):1599-1608. doi: 10.1007/s00246-019-02193-1. Epub 2019 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 31463514; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6851488.

Woo JL, Anderson BR, Gruenstein D, Conti R, Chua KP. Minimum Travel Distance among Publicly Insured Infants with Severe Congenital Heart Disease: Potential Impact of In-State Restrictions. Ped Card 2019 Dec;40(8):1599-1608.  Doi:10.1007/200246-019-02193-1. (We examine the distribution of congenital heart surgical centers, the minimum distances infants with critical congenital heart disease must travel in the current era for care, and the potential implications of site closures under a regionalization of care model.)

Liu N, Truong VA, Wang X, Anderson BR. Integrated Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Considerations for Patients’ Lengths-of-Stays. Production Operations Management 2019 March; 0(0)1-22. Doi: 10.1111/poms.13012. (We introduce the first dynamic multi-day scheduling model that integrates information about capacity usage (length-of-stay and downstream census) at more than one location in a hospital.)

Anderson BR, Kumar SR, Gottlieb-Sen D, Newburger JW, Hill KD, Moga FX, Overman DM, Jacobs ML, Jacobs JP, Glied SA, Bacha EA, on behalf of the Congenital Heart Technical Skill Study. The Congenital Heart Technical Skill Study: Rationale and Design. World J Ped Cong Heart Surg 2019 March; 10(2)137-144. (We describe the methods, rationale, and early participant experience with the Congenital Heart Technical Skill Study in which we link peer-evaluation of surgeon technical skill from direct, video observation of operating congenital heart surgeons to 5-years worth of surgeon-specific outcomes from a national registry.)

Anderson BR. Fixing the Supply Problem (Invited Reply to the Editor). JTCVS 2018 Sept; 156(3):1037. PubMed PMID: 30119275.

Anderson BR, Fieldston ES, Newburger JW, Bacha EA, Glied SA. Disparities in Outcomes and Resource Utilization after Hospitalization for Cardiac Surgery by Neighborhood Income. Pediatrics 2018 Feb 23;141(3). Doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-2432. (Linking administrative and US Census Bureau data, we examined associations between community-level income, mortality, length-of-stay, and costs, for a resource-intensive cohort and general pediatric populations.  We found that children from lower income neighborhoods have higher mortality and use more resources than do children from higher income neighborhoods, and that these disparities are only partially explained by differences in race/insurance/center.)

Anderson BR, Wallace AS, Hill KD, Gulack, BC, Matsouaka R, Jacobs JP, Bacha EA, Glied SA, Jacobs ML. Association of Surgeon Age and Experience on Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes. Circ Qual Outcomes 2017 July 14; 10(7). Doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.003533. (In this study, we linked the Society of Thoracic Surgeons-Congenital Heart Surgery Database to provider characteristics from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile. We found that junior congenital heart surgeons had comparable outcomes to their mid and senior colleagues, but that patients operated on by very senior surgeons demonstrated significantly worse risk-adjusted outcomes.)  

Anderson BR. The Cost of Operating Under a Veil of Secrecy (Invited Editorial). JTCVS 2017; epub 2017 Aug 30. Doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.08.042

Anderson BR, Ciarleglio AJ, Cohen DJ, Lai WW, Neidell, M; Hall M, Glied SA, Bacha EA. The Norwood Operation: Relative Effects of Surgeon and Institutional Volumes on Outcomes and Resource Utilization. Card Young 2016 April 26(4):683-692. PubMed PMID: 26169083. (This study was the first to examine the independent effects of surgeon and center volumes on outcomes and resource utilization for children undergoing the most resource intensive birth defect managed in the US.)

Anderson BR. Improving Healthcare by Embracing Systems Theory (Invited Editorial). JTCVS 2016 Aug; 152(2):593-4. PubMed PMID: 27113625.

Anderson BR, Ciarleglio AJ, Krishnamurthy G, Glied SA, Bacha EA. Neonatal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Effects of Bloodstream Infections on Outcomes and Costs for Neonates Undergoing the Norwood Operation. Ann Thorac Surg 2015 May 99(5):1648-54. PubMed PMID: 25827672. (In this study, we used simulation modeling to examine associations between hospital acquired bloodstream infections and outcomes and costs for neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the most expensive birth defect managed in the US.Examining effects of hospital-acquired infections at both patient- and institutional-levels, we found that, while these infections were associated with dramatic increases in morbidity and costs at a patient-level, even a 50% reduction in the incidence of infections would have minimal impact on a hospital level.)

Anderson BR, Ciarleglio AJ, Hayes DA, Vincent JA, Quaegebeur JM, Bacha EA.  Earlier Arterial Switch Operation Improves Outcomes and Reduces Costs for Neonates with Transposition of the Great Arteries.  J Am Coll Card 2014 Jan; 63(5): 482-487.  PubMed PMID: 24184243. This was the first in a series of papers, in which we explored the non-linear effects of surgical timing on patient outcomes and resource utilization.

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