Cumulative sum techniques for assessing surgical results

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 663-667

  Grunkemeier, Gary L ^a,b   Wu, Ying Xing ^a   Furnary, Anthony P ^a  

^a EARLE A CHILES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0041328407     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00873-7     Document Type: Article

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