Table 1.
Demographics, mean distance to HEAL, payment type, and surgery location of patients treated by HEAL Africa Training Hospital from 2002 to 2014.
Fig 1.
Boxplots depicting the yearly age distributions of patients treated for congenital malformations at HEAL Africa Training Hospital from 2002–2014.
The overall average age at time of presentation decreased significantly (p = 0.04) over time, even when controlling for distance from HEAL, payment type, diagnosis, and sex. Boxes indicate interquartile (IQR) variation in age each year; bold lines the median age. Whiskers demonstrate data within the third and quartile +/- 1.5 IQR respectively; dots indicate outliers. Number of individuals treated each year is indicated within parentheses.
Table 2.
Patient Characteristics.
Table 3.
Number of deaths after treatment for common CMs at HEAL Africa Training Hospital, Goma, DRC (N = 1175 patients).
Table 4.
R output summarizing the significant (p = 0.05) predictors of age at time of surgery in our best-fit model.
Individual significant diagnoses were not included in this table but can be found in S2 Table. The model had AIC of 774.0, and an adjusted R2 value of 0.41.
Table 5.
Number of surgeons in the DRC, demonstrating the shortage of specialists in the country.
DRC is ranked 187th out of 187 countries on the planet as per the Human Development Index calculated by the United Nations.