Assessment of the EuroSCORE II in a New Zealand Tertiary Centre

摘要

Background The updated European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE II) is a well-established cardiac surgery risk scoring tool for estimating operative mortality. This risk stratification system was derived from a predominantly European patient cohort. No validation analysis of this risk model has been undertaken for the New Zealand population across all major cardiac surgery procedures. We aim to assess the efficacy (discrimination and calibration) of the EuroSCORE II for predicting mortality in cardiac surgical patients at a large New Zealand tertiary centre.