Review Article
Using Risk Models to Improve Patient Selection for High-Risk Vascular Surgery
Table 1
Outcomes at 30 days, 1 year, and 5 years, by repair type and study.
| Repair type | Outcome measure | Medicare 1998–2007 | TAG [43] | VALOR [42] | TX2 [11] |
| | In hospital/30-day mortality | 7.1% | 6.4% | 8.0% | 6.0% | Open repair | 1-year survival | 87% | 78% | 79% | 88% | | 5-year survival | 72% | 67% | — | — |
| | In hospital/30-day mortality | 6.1% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1.9% | TEVAR | 1-year survival | 82% | 82% | 84% | 84–94% | | 5-year survival | 62% | 68% | — | — |
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