Cardiac surgical mortality

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1053-1057

  Pons, Joan M V ^a,b   Espinas, Josep A ^a   Borras, Josep M ^a   Moreno, Victor ^a   Martin, Isaac ^a   Granados, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 0031785208     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.133.10.1053     Document Type: Article

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