The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2020 Update on Outcomes and Research.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD) continues to be a highly regarded, comprehensive clinical outcomes database that captures more than 90% of all congenital heart surgery cases in the United States and has more than 90% of all congenital heart surgery centers as participants. This report includes aggregate information on clinical outcomes evaluated at the aggregate and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons-European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (STAT) category levels for the period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2019. It also includes the published research activities that use data from the STS CHSD. Also included is information on the STS CHSD auditing function, a summary of the significant revisions to the data, which is collected on each patient, and an update on efforts to update the risk-adjustment methods for evaluation of the outcomes.