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Predicting morbidity after coronary surgery

Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB23 3RE, United Kingdom

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Key Words: Cardiac surgery • Morbidity • Risk model

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Antunes and co-workers [1] present a risk model for the prediction of major morbidity (stroke, mediastinitis and organ failure) after coronary surgery. The specialty of cardiac surgery has led the field of risk assessment in relation to operative mortality and those interested in this field have at their service a number of risk models which allow the prediction of mortality with a reasonable degree of accuracy. The authors correctly state that evaluation of clinical outcomes should no longer be confined to operative mortality, which is now closely monitored in most units with robust quality control mechanisms. Other outcomes of interest to the patient, the provider and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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