Does EuroSCORE II provide better calibration and discrimination than the original model for assessing cardiac surgical mortality risk?
EuroSCORE II provides an updated, better-calibrated model for assessing cardiac surgical mortality risk compared to the original model.
Cardiac surgical mortality has significantly reduced in the last 15 years despite older and sicker patients. EuroSCORE II is better calibrated than the original model yet preserves powerful discrimination. It is proposed for the future assessment of cardiac surgical risk.
Nashef et al. (Wed,) studied this question.