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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:838-839
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

e-mail: jhammon@wfubmc.edu

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"Measure all that is measurable, and make those things measurable, which have hitherto not been measured." Galileo Galilei

For those investigators trying to assess neurobehavioral outcomes following cardiac surgery, the traditional use of stroke rates to determine outcome has become obsolete unless the number of patients in the study is quite large. This is because stroke, as assessed by neurological examination, is rare in most modern clinical series. Thus it has been necessary to use more intricate testing to measure subtle neurobehavioral outcomes, and this study is no exception. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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