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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited Commentary

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

(Email: fhe@comcast.net).

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This work [1] seeks to determine whether the EuroSCORE model performs better than the New York state valve surgery models in predicting operative mortality. The study shows that for isolated valve surgery, the NewYork state model had significantly better c-index values and Hosmer-Lemeshow scores than the EuroSCORE model. There was essentially no difference between model results for valve plus coronary artery bypass graft procedures.

In this work, the test population is (1) relatively small, (2) from one institution, and (3) from Rotterdam, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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