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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1239-1240
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Jeffrey Gold, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, 5th Floor, Suite 5B, Bronx, NY 10467, USA

e-mail: jgold@montefiore.org

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Nilsson and colleagues describe a sophisticated statistical comparison of two risk algorithms for predicting outcome in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery. The EuroSCORE and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database risk stratification systems are described, compared, and reviewed. In a series of nearly 4500 single institution isolated coronary bypass surgery patients, the Hosmer-Lemeshop goodness of fit test was utilized. The clinical results were excellent, and good predictive accuracy was determined for both models. The authors calculated that the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was larger for the Euroscore than for . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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