The Thoracic Surgery Scoring System (Thoracoscore): Risk model for in-hospital death in 15,183 patients requiring thoracic surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 325-332.e1

  Falcoz, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Conti, Massimo ^b   Brouchet, Laurent ^c   Chocron, Sidney ^a   Puyraveau, Marc ^d   Mercier, Mariette ^e   Etievent, Joseph Philippe ^a   Dahan, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SERVICE DE PNEUMOLOGIE   (France)

^d HÔPITAL SAINT JACQUES   (France)

^e Medical School   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX SURGERY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33846375415     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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