Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Left ventricular ejection fraction assessment may invalidate the reliability of EuroSCORE
Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, August 26th, 2006
Researchers in Denmark conducted a study "to evaluate the impact of different echocardiographic methods for assessment of left ventricular dysfunction on the predictive value of EuroSCORE and thus its reliability in daily practice and benchmarking."
"Twenty-five recordings obtained by transthoracic echocardiography, optimal for study using four different echocardiographic methods, were examined and placed into relevant EuroSCORE classes," explained C.J. Jakobsen and colleagues at Aarhus University Hospital. "The four methods were eyeballing, Watt Motion...
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