Meaningful outcome measures in cardiac surgery.

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Summary

Given the primary aims of cardiac surgery are to relieve symptoms and improve good quality survival, it is disability-free survival that is the ultimate outcome measure; the question then becomes: what is disability and how should it be quantified after cardiac surgery?

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article
Published
2014-03-01
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Keywords

Medicine, Myocardial infarction, Mace, Stroke (engine), Clinical endpoint

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