Erschienen in:
01.06.2009 | Editorial
EUROSCORE: still gold standard or less?
verfasst von:
Christoph Bode, Malte Kelm
Erschienen in:
Clinical Research in Cardiology
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Ausgabe 6/2009
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Excerpt
Scoring systems have been developed in almost all subspecialties of clinical medicine. The major task of a scoring system is to systematically determine factors that may identify patients at risk, or determine efficacy of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. They provide comparative measures between different sites and countries. Also, they facilitate the establishment of systems for quality assurance in a given treatment. Scoring systems are, however, never intended to substitute for clinical decision making of physicians in the context of an individual patient. …