Why the study?
Do coronary surgery risk-adjusted models accurately predict 30-day mortality in individual patients undergoing CABG?
Population
418 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery by-pass surgery
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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Current risk models unreliable for individual CABG mortality; leaves open improved personalized prediction methods.
Do coronary surgery risk-adjusted models accurately predict 30-day mortality in individual patients undergoing CABG?
Coronary surgery risk models are highly accurate for predicting population-level mortality but are inaccurate for predicting individual patient outcomes.
Pinna-Pintor et al. (2002) studied this question.
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