Healthcare Watchdog Publishes Latest Heart Surgery Survival Rates
Jun 30th 2008Drug InformationCardiovascular
It will release the statistics on its groundbreaking cardiac website, set up in 2006 when heart surgery became the first speciality to publish information on survival. The data has been adjusted to take into account the age and lifestyle of patients, which affect chances of survival. Previously, the international EuroSCORE benchmark was used as a way of taking account of the risks involved in the surgery.
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