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“Thoracoscore”: first in-hospital thoracic surgery mortality scoring

BROUCHET L | DAHAN M | FALCOZ PE | CONTI M

Seance of wednesday 08 november 2006 (CHIRURGIE THORACIQUE)

Abstract

In January 2003, the French society of thoracic and cardio-vascularsurgery initiated « EPITHOR project », which is the national databaseof thoracic surgery. Four years after, 65% of French thoracicsurgery teams participate, the database contains more than 56 000procedures and the “THORACOSCORE” was created: it is the firstin-hospital mortality scoring system.