Predicted Risk of Mortality Models: Surgeons Need to Understand Limitations of the University HealthSystem Consortium Models

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-556

  Kozower, Benjamin D ^a   Ailawadi, Gorav ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Pates, Robert D ^a   Lau, Christine L ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DATA BASE; DIALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BLOCK; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MODEL; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SURGEON; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350130994     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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