Background Clinical quality registries (CQRs) are playing an increasingly important role in
improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. CQRs are established with the …

Background: In an apparent paradox, morbidity and mortality are lower in obese patients
undergoing cardiac surgery, although the nature of this association is unclear. We sought to …

Aims Operability of type A acute aortic dissections (TAAAD) is currently based on non-
standardized decision-making process, and it lacks a disease-specific risk evaluation model …

Clinical prediction models (CPMs) have become fundamental for risk stratification across
healthcare. The CPM pipeline (development, validation, deployment, and impact …

Background Disease populations, clinical practice, and healthcare systems are constantly
evolving. This can result in clinical prediction models quickly becoming outdated and less …

A clinical prediction model is a tool for predicting healthcare outcomes, usually within a
specific population and context. A common approach is to develop a new clinical prediction …

Background Using outcome measures to advance healthcare continues to be of widespread
interest. The goal is to summarize the results of studies which use outcome measures from …

Medical registries provide highly reliable data, challenged hierarchically only by randomized
controlled trials. Although registries have been used in several fields of medicine for more …

Background Clinical evidence in coronary surgery is usually derived from retrospective,
single institutional series. This may introduce significant biases in the analysis of critical …

Objectives Surgery for acute type A aortic dissection (ATAD) carries a high risk of operative
mortality. We examined the surgeon volume-outcome relation with respect to in-hospital …