The first Latin-American risk stratification system for cardiac surgery: Can be used as a graphic pocket-card score

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-208

  Carosella, Victorio C ^a,b   Navia, Jose L ^c   Al Ruzzeh, Sharif ^c   Grancelli, Hugo ^b   Rodriguez, Walter ^d   Cardenas, Cesar ^a   Bilbao, Jorge ^a   Nojek, Carlos ^b,e  

^a HOSPITAL ESPAÑOL   (Argentina)

^b FLENI   (Argentina)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Clinica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina   (Argentina)

^e Sanatorio de la Trinidad   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Outcome; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SURGICAL RISK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARGENTINA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 68049087717     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.199083     Document Type: Article

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