Predicting prognosis in cardiac surgery: a prophecy?
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Predicting prognosis in cardiac surgery: a prophecy?
Physicians need to make predictions on the prognosis of a treatment that helps them in the choice of therapy. Medicine used to be much more subjective than in the current evidence-based era. Shared decision-making, where physicians and patients both participate in deciding on choices for therapy, is also more common [1]. Clinical prediction models like EuroSCORE may provide the evidence-based i...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1010-7940,1873-734X
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs061