What is it about?
Although the National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur has been using EUROScore II for the past few years to predict post-surgical mortality after coronary bypass surgery, the instrument has not been validated yet. This is the first paper that validated EUROScore II in Malaysia.
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Why is it important?
This study shows that the EuroSCORE II is a good predictor of postoperative mortality of the Malaysian patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass (CABG) surgery and can be safely used for risk assessment.
Perspectives
The comments made by the reviewers were very helpful in revising the manuscript and made it more complete.
Dato' Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Validation of EuroSCORE II in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery at the National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur: a retrospective review., F1000Research, September 2019, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.14760.2.
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