July 1, 2002Open Access

Validation of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) in North American cardiac surgery

Structured PICO

Does the EuroSCORE risk stratification system perform well in North American cardiac surgery patients?

Population

North American cardiac surgery patients (STS database)

Intervention

EuroSCORE risk stratification system

Outcome

Risk stratification performance

EuroSCORE is a valid and simple additive risk stratification system for North American cardiac surgery patients.

Abstract

Despite substantial demographic differences between Europe and North America, EuroSCORE performs very well in the STS database, and can be recommended as a simple, additive risk stratification system on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Samer A.M. Nashef (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69eff8f9bce9831ba4f734fa https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(02)00208-7

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