ReviewCureus2021
Utilizing the Most Accurate Preoperative Risk Calculator.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Update in Perioperative Ischemic Workup: Integrating 2024 AHA/ACC Guidelines and Contemporary Evidence.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
- Perioperative Cardiovascular Outcomes and Risk Assessment in Older Adults for Noncardiac Surgery.Current anesthesiology reports · 2025Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The most commonly used preoperative assessment tools include the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Revised Cardiac Risk Index. These tools seek to predict the risk of an individual experiencing postoperative complications, including but not limited to mortality, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, stroke, venous thromboembolism, and pneumonia. Many published studies have sought to objectively quantify the utility of the preoperative risk calculations by retrospectively compiling data for patients who underwent the same or comparable surgeries to compare actual complications to predicted complications. Therefore, we searched these studies to review the literature to draw more general conclusions and recommend which risk calculator is best for different types of surgeries.
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