Prospective validation of the EuroSCOREII risk model in asingle Dutch cardiac surgery centre

Objective: The EuroSCOREI was one of the most frequently used pre-operative risk models in cardiac surgery. In 2011 it was replaced by its successor the EuroSCOREII. This study aims to validate the EuroSCOREII and to compare its performance with the EuroSCOREI in aDutch hospital. Methods: The EuroSCOREII was prospectively validated in 2,296 consecutive cardiac surgery patients between 1April 2012 and 1January 2014. Receiver operating characteristic curves on in-hospital mortality were plotted for EuroSCOREI and EuroSCOREII, and the area under the curve was calculated to assess discriminative p... Mehr ...