Risk Score for Predicting Mortality in Flail Chest
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Risk Score for Predicting Mortality in Flail Chest.
BACKGROUND Flail chest injuries are associated with high mortality and morbidity. Despite evidence that operative repair of flail chest is beneficial, it is rarely done. We sought to create a simple risk score using available preoperative covariates to calculate individual risk of mortality in flail chest. METHODS A logistic regression model was trained on Ontario Trauma Registry data to gene...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0003-4975
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.090