PART 1: RISK ASSESSMENT OF MORTALITY IN CARDIAC SURGERY—A MARKER OF QUALITY, BUT WHOS? Quality in cardiac surgery can be defined by “the degree
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P2 This concept paper is in two parts that are intimately related. First is the breakdown of cardiac surgical results to assess the effects of each of the care components that makes up the care package of a patient’s experiences. Second, the way we assess risk in patients prior to surgery may potentially be improved if we change our mindsets from additive and logistic regression analysis and embrace modern software computer technology.
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