Towards improved risk scores: The quest for the grail continues

European Heart Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-12

  Iung, Bernard ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; EUROSCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84871981527     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs343     Document Type: Editorial

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