Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. · Nov 1996
ReviewIdentification of preoperative variables needed for risk adjustment of short-term mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The Working Group Panel on the Cooperative CABG Database Project.
The purpose of this consensus effort was to define and prioritize the importance of a set of clinical variables useful for monitoring and improving the short-term mortality of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). ⋯ A relatively small number of clinical variables provide a large amount of prognostic information in patients undergoing CABG.