Ready-made, recalibrated, or remodeled? Issues in the use of risk indexes for assessing mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Ready-made, recalibrated, or remodeled? Issues in the use of risk indexes for assessing mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.99.16.2098
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发表时间:
1999-04-27
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
Naylor, CD
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作者:
Ivanov, J;Tu, JV;Naylor, CD
Background-Risk indexes for operative mortality after-cardiac surgery are used for comparative profiling of surgeons or centers. We examined-whether clinicians and managers should use an existing index without modification, recalibrate it for their populations, or derive a new model altogether.Methods and Results-Drawing on 7491 consecutive patients who underwent isolated CABG at 2 Toronto teaching hospitals between 1993 and 1996, we compared 3 strategies: (1) using a ready-made model originally derived and validated in our jurisdiction;:, (2) recalibrating the ready-made model to better fit the population; and (3) deriving anew model with additional risk factors. We assessed statistical accuracy; ie, area under a receiver-operator characteristic curve(ROC); precision, ie, statistical goodness-of-fit; and actual impact on both risk-adjusted operative mortalities,(RAOM) and performance rankings for 14 surgeons.:The new model was slightly more accurate than the ready-made model (ROC, 0.78 versus 0.76; P