RACHS-1 (Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery) Calculator
RACHS-1 (Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery): Explanation and clinical context The RACHS-1 method groups pediatric congenital heart surgical procedures into six categories (1–6) of increasing expected operative risk to allow comparisons of in-hospital mortality between case mixes, institutions, or time periods. RACHS-1 was developed by consensus using the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (PCCC) dataset and