EuroSCORE I has been used as a quality monitoring or comparison tool. The quality of care
is largely dissociated with the early risk. Indeed, the quality of care in cardiac surgery …

The EuroSCORE project was conducted in 1995 and reported in 1999 by Dr Nashef et al.[1].
It was revolutionary for its time because it provided the surgical community with knowledge …

In this issue [1], Nissinen and co-workers have attempted to improve the accuracy of
EuroSCORE (logistic and additive) by developing a new model which takes some of the …

Objectives: To carry out an in-depth single-centre analysis of the inter-observer reliability of
the EuroSCORE (European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation) to propose …

Objective The original EuroSCORE models are poorly calibrated for predicting mortality in
contemporary cardiac surgery. EuroSCORE II has been proposed as a new risk model. The …

Objective: We derived a new risk-scoring method by modifying some of the risk factors
included in the EuroSCORE algorithm. Methods: This study includes 3613 patients who …

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 …

We recently read with great interest and anticipation the development of the EuroSCORE II.
However, we have methodological concerns relating to how EuroSCORE II was developed …

The validity of the cardiac surgical scoring system, EuroSCORE, has been assessed by
several individual cardiac centres within and outside Europe. We chose to assess the …

Objectives: To assess whether the use of the full logistic European System for Cardiac
Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) is superior to the standard additive EuroSCORE in …