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1,084 patients undergoing heart surgery who were admitted into the fast-track unit
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May aid preoperative risk stratification in cardiac surgery; leaves open external validation before clinical adoption.
A newly developed and internally validated prediction score using preoperative factors can accurately identify cardiac surgery patients at high risk of fast-track failure.
Constantinides et al. (2006) studied this question.
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