Contemporary Mortality Risk Prediction for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

We sought to create contemporary models for predicting mortality risk following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).There is a need to identify PCI risk factors and accurately quantify procedural risks to facilitate comparative effectiveness research, provider comparisons, and informed patient decision making.Data from 181,775 procedures performed from January 2004 to March 2006 were used to develop risk models based on pre-procedural...