Prediction of Patient Length of Stay on the Intensive Care Unit Following Cardiac Surgery: A Logistic Regression Analysis Based on the Cardiac Operative Mortality Risk Calculator, EuroSCORE.

This analysis of an extensive data set shows that patient LOS in ICU after cardiac surgery in a single center can be predicted accurately using the simple cardiac operative risk scoring tool EuroSCORE. Using such predictions has the potential to improve ICU resource management.