Mayo Clinic Risk Score for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Predicts In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Why the study?
Does the Mayo Clinic Risk Score (MCRS) predict in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery?
Population
370,793 patients in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass…
Comparison
Mayo Clinic Risk Score (MCRS) vs Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) model
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
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Discussion
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Implication
MCRS offers moderate but inferior discrimination to STS for CABG mortality; leaves open its role in unified pre-procedural risk assessment.
Structured PICO
Does the Mayo Clinic Risk Score (MCRS) predict in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery?
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Population
370,793 patients in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery from 2004 to 2006, median age 66 years.
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Intervention
Mayo Clinic Risk Score (MCRS)
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Comparator
Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) model
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Outcome
In-hospital mortalityhard clinical
The Mayo Clinic Risk Score, originally designed for PCI, provides moderate discrimination for predicting in-hospital mortality in CABG patients, allowing for a unified pre-procedural risk assessment.
Cite This Study
Singh et al. (2008) studied this question.