Why the study?
Can a probabilistic neural network accurately estimate the risk of mortality after cardiac surgery?
Population
1,477 consecutive cardiac surgery patients operated on in a teaching hospital during a four-year period
Design
Cohort, Patient records randomly divided into training and validation sets
Authors
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Should not yet change practice for cardiac surgery risk estimation; leaves open prospective validation of neural networks.
Can a probabilistic neural network accurately estimate the risk of mortality after cardiac surgery?
A probabilistic neural network using seven routine clinical variables can accurately estimate mortality risk following cardiac surgery.
Richard K. Orr (1997) studied this question.
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