introduction: knowledge management is one of the most important implements for organization's success in data age and competition situations. nowadays, the notability (importance) of subject is to the extent that some of the organizations measure their available knowledge and reflect these measurements in reports as organization's mental investment and as an index for organization's classificat...

BACKGROUND The recently released 2014 European Society of Cardiology guidelines of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) use a new clinical risk prediction model for sudden cardiac death (SCD), based on the HCM Risk-SCD study. Our study is the first external and independent validation of this new risk prediction model. METHODS AND RESULTS The study population consisted of a consecutive cohort of ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to validate the new EuroSCORE II risk model in a contemporary cardiac surgery practice in the United Kingdom (UK). METHODS The original logistic EuroSCORE was compared to EuroSCORE II with regard to accuracy of predicting in-hospital mortality. Analysis was performed on isolated coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG; n = 2913), aortic valve replacement (AVR; n = 814), mitral ...