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European Heart Journal 2003 24(9):882; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00799-6
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Letter to the Editor

The logistic EuroSCORE

F Roquesa, P Michelb, A.R Goldstonec and S.A.M Nashefc,*

a CHU Fort-de-France, Martinique, France
b 12 Rue Dubernat, 33404 Talence Cedex, France
c Papworth Hospital, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44-1480-364299; fax: 44-1480-364744
E-mail address: sam.nashef@euroscore.org

Received 23 September 2002; accepted 23 October 2002

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Dear Sir,

The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) identifies a number of risk factors which help to predict mortality from cardiac surgery.1 The predicted mortality (in percent) is calculated by adding the weights assigned to each factor. Since its initial publication in 1999, EuroSCORE has been widely used in Europe and elsewhere and has been the subject . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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