ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Fred H. Edwards
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Edwards, F. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Edwards, F. H.
Related Collections
Right arrow Professional affairs
Right arrowRelated Article

Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:930
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Fred H. Edwards, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida Health Science Center, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida, 653-2 W 8th St, Jacksonville, FL 32209-6511

(Email: fhe@comcast.net).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

Risk adjustment is recognized as an essential element in the analysis of surgical outcomes. For this reason the authors [1] are to be commended for their proposal to simplify the process of risk adjustment in valve surgery.

At first glance, additive score methods may appear to have the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Related Article

Risk Index for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality for Cardiac Valve Surgery
Edward L. Hannan, Chuntao Wu, Edward V. Bennett, Russell E. Carlson, Alfred T. Culliford, Jeffrey P. Gold, Robert S.D. Higgins, Craig R. Smith, and Robert H. Jones
Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2007 83: 921-929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]





HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2007 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.