Social Risk Factors in Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Models. Part 2: Empirical Studies in Cardiac Surgery; Risk Model Recommendations

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, and Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dshahian@partners.org.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
• ³ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
• ⁴ The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁵ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ⁶ Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
• ⁷ McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute, Houston, Texas.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
• ⁹ Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Division of General Thoracic Surgery, UC Davis Health, Sacramento, California.