Prognostic value of the Duke Activity Status Index for preoperative cardiac risk stratification: an international pooled cohort study
Duminda N Wijeysundera, Brian H Cuthbertson, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Tom EF Abbott, Rupert M Pearse, Paul S Myles, Keying Xu, Julian F Daza, Calvin Diep, Leandra A Amado, Angela Jerath, Bernhard Riedel, Daniel I McIsaac, FIT After Surgery Investigators and METS Investigators · 2026
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Description
Wijeysundera and a large team checked in twenty twenty-six if a short form on daily acts helps flag heart risk before surgery. The form asks what tasks a person can do, from walks to hard chores. Guides urge its use, but proof of its added worth was thin.
They pooled two large groups of adults set for major surgery that was not on the heart. Near four in a hundred had a heart attack, a stopped heart, or death in a month. The form added real news past age, past risk scores, and a blood test. Yet the full set of tools still split risk in a modest way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Duminda N Wijeysundera, Brian H Cuthbertson, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Tom EF Abbott, Rupert M Pearse, Paul S Myles, Keying Xu, Julian F Daza, Calvin Diep, Leandra A Amado, Angela Jerath, Bernhard Riedel, Daniel I McIsaac, FIT After Surgery Investigators and METS Investigators |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |