Inadequacies of hospital-level critical congenital heart disease screening data reports: implications for research and quality efforts

Assess the quality of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening data reports in California, where CCHD screening is not mandatory but reporting is. Retrospective review of California hospital-level CCHD screening data to evaluate data reliability and adherence to state screening and reporting recommendations. Data were evaluated for internal consistency and compared to two databases. Over one-third of hospitals did not submit data. Only...