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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29:446
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

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In this issue, Yap et al. [1] examine the performance of the additive and logistic EuroSCORE risk models in an Australian cardiac surgical population of over 8000 patients. To date, there have been papers which tested EuroSCORE in single-institution studies and some have reported that the model overpredicts risk. When this happens, true risk overprediction by the model may be the explanation, but other possibilities also exist. First, it is likely that those . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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