The Glasgow Aneurysm Score as a tool to predict 30-day and 2-year mortality in the patients from the Dutch Randomized Endovascular Aneurysm Management trial

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-281

  Baas, Annette F ^a   Janssen, Kristel J M ^a   Prinssen, Monique ^a   Buskens, Eric ^a   Blankensteijn, Jan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW ANEURYSM SCORE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BELGIUM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38649113599     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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