Why the study?
Does a simple cumulative risk score accurately predict mortality and severe morbidity in adult heart surgery patients?
Population
7,181 adult patients undergoing heart surgery across 42 centers in France.
Design
Cohort
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May support preoperative counseling and quality benchmarking in cardiac surgery; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
Does a simple cumulative risk score accurately predict mortality and severe morbidity in adult heart surgery patients?
A simple 8-factor risk score accurately predicts mortality and severe morbidity in adult heart surgery, enabling center-level self-assessment of quality of care.
Roques et al. (1995) studied this question.
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