Statistical methods to monitor risk factors in a clinical database example of a national cardiac surgery registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-118

  Siregar, Sabrina ^a   Roes, Kit C B ^a   Van Straten, Albert H M ^a,b   Bots, Michiel L ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Van Herwerden, Lex A ^a   Groenwold, Rolf H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Morbidity; Mortality; Risk factors; Statistics; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISEASE REGISTRY; EUROSCORE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 84873674422     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.112.968800     Document Type: Article

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