March 11, 2015European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Validation and quality measurements for EuroSCORE and EuroSCORE II in the Spanish cardiac surgical population: a prospective, multicentre study
Population
4,034 patients undergoing cardiac surgery between 1 October 2012 and 31 March 2013 across 20 Spanish centres
Comparison
EuroSCORE II risk prediction model vs Original EuroSCORE risk prediction model
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
May inform preoperative risk assessment in Spanish cardiac surgery patients; extends validation but leaves open need for local recalibration.
Structured PICO
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Population
4,034 patients undergoing cardiac surgery between 1 October 2012 and 31 March 2013 across 20 Spanish centres
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Intervention
EuroSCORE II risk prediction model
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Comparator
Original EuroSCORE risk prediction model
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Outcome
Actual mortality compared to expected mortalityhard clinical
EuroSCORE II provides good discrimination and more closely matches actual mortality than the original EuroSCORE in Spanish cardiac surgical patients, although it slightly underpredicts mortality.
Cite This Study
García-Valentín et al. (2015) studied this question.