Risk assessment in coronary surgery: A center's experience with the EuroSCORE system;Valutazione del rischio in chirurgia coronarica: Esperienza di un centro con il sistema EuroSCORE

Italian Heart Journal Supplement

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 365-368

  Di Bella, Isidoro ^a   Da Col, Uberto ^a   Del Sindaco, Francesco ^a   Pasquino, Stefano ^a   Affronti, Alessandro ^a   Santucci, Antonella ^a   Ragni, Temistocle ^a  

^a Ospedale Silvestrini   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary surgery; Myocardial revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; ALGORITHM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EUROPE; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 23644455997     PISSN: 11294728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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