Can EuroSCORE accurately predict long-term outcome after cardiac surgery?

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 620-621

  Toumpoulis, Ioannis K ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; EuroSCORE; Risk score

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOSTATISTICS; EUROPE; EUROSCORE; HUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29544439794     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0375     Document Type: Short Survey

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