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SUBMITTER: Wu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4121885 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Chuntao C Camacho Fabian T FT King Spencer B SB Walford Gary G Holmes David R DR Stamato Nicholas J NJ Berger Peter B PB Sharma Samin S Curtis Jeptha P JP Venditti Ferdinand J FJ Jacobs Alice K AK Hannan Edward L EL
Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions 20140114 1
<h4>Background</h4>A simple risk score to predict long-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using preprocedural risk factors is currently not available. In this study, we created one by simplifying the results of a Cox proportional hazards model.<h4>Methods and results</h4>A total of 11,897 patients who underwent PCI from October through December 2003 in New York State were randomly divided into derivation and validation samples. Patients' vital statuses were tracked usi ...[more]