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%	—	—