2017
A Novel Risk Score to Predict the Need for Nutrition Support After Cardiac Surgery
Ohkuma R, Crawford T, Brown P, Grimm J, Magruder J, Kilic A, Suarez-Pierre A, Snyder S, Wood J, Schneider E, Sussman M, Whitman G. A Novel Risk Score to Predict the Need for Nutrition Support After Cardiac Surgery. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2017, 104: 1306-1312. PMID: 28625392, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostoperative nutrition supportNutrition supportCardiac surgeryNS scoresAdult cardiac surgery patientsMultivariable logistic regression modelingEarly postoperative nutritionMalnutrition-related morbidityCardiac surgery patientsNovel risk scoreRelative odds ratioLogistic regression modelingTiming of initiationPostoperative nutritionSurgery patientsDerivation cohortIndependent predictorsPredictive screening toolMultivariable analysisValidation cohortC-statisticOdds ratioHigh riskRisk scorePatients
2016
A novel score to estimate the risk of pneumonia after cardiac surgery
Kilic A, Ohkuma R, Grimm J, Magruder J, Sussman M, Schneider E, Whitman G. A novel score to estimate the risk of pneumonia after cardiac surgery. Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery 2016, 151: 1415-1421. PMID: 27085620, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.12.049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAge DistributionAgedCardiac Surgical ProceduresCardiopulmonary BypassCohort StudiesFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisPneumoniaPostoperative ComplicationsRegression AnalysisRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexSex DistributionSurvival RateUnited StatesConceptsCardiac surgeryPostoperative pneumoniaRisk scoreValidation cohortRisk factorsMultivariable modelRate of pneumoniaRisk of pneumoniaSingle-institution databaseSignificant risk factorsComposite scoreIntraoperative predictorsPerioperative managementPrimary outcomeTraining cohortPneumoniaSurgeryNovel scorePreventative interventionsCohortOverall rateScoresPatientsSignificant correlationRegression analysis