Doing better in more complex patients: leading the way for QUIP

Affiliations

¹ Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital (CHU, ULg) of Liège, Liège, Belgium philippe.kolh@chu.ulg.ac.be.

Editorial

Ruben L Osnabrugge et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Feb.

. 2016 Feb;49(2):397-8.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezv262. Epub 2015 Aug 4.

¹ Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital (CHU, ULg) of Liège, Liège, Belgium philippe.kolh@chu.ulg.ac.be.

No abstract available

Keywords: Comorbidity; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Mortality; Octogenarians; Survival.

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Age-dependent trends in postoperative mortality and preoperative comorbidity in isolated coronary artery bypass surgery: a nationwide study.
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