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Clinical Research in Cardiology
Published in: Clinical Research in Cardiology 6/2009

01-06-2009 | Editorial

EUROSCORE: still gold standard or less?

Authors: Christoph Bode, Malte Kelm

Published in: Clinical Research in Cardiology | Issue 6/2009

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Scoring systems have been developed in almost all subspecialties of clinical medicine. The major task of a scoring system is to systematically determine factors that may identify patients at risk, or determine efficacy of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. They provide comparative measures between different sites and countries. Also, they facilitate the establishment of systems for quality assurance in a given treatment. Scoring systems are, however, never intended to substitute for clinical decision making of physicians in the context of an individual patient. …
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Metadata
Title
EUROSCORE: still gold standard or less?
Authors
Christoph Bode
Malte Kelm
Publication date
01-06-2009
Publisher
D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in
Clinical Research in Cardiology / Issue 6/2009
Print ISSN: 1861-0684
Electronic ISSN: 1861-0692
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-009-0022-4

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