Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies : MITAT : official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy
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Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol · Apr 2011
Does the euroSCORE equally well predict perioperative cardiac surgical risk for men and women?
The euroSCORE is a widely applied scoring system to estimate perioperative risk in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. It acknowledges an increased risk in women but does not apply a gender-specific weighing of individual risk indicators. We separately investigated the performance of the euroSCORE for men and women. ⋯ AUC for women increased to 0.755, AUC for men further increased to 0.772. The original euroSCORE failed to accurately predict perioperative mortality in women. A binary regression model, assigning a gender-specific weight to each of the risk indicators of the original euroSCORE, considerably improved the predictive power of the modified euroSCORE.