title: Letter by Lown et al regarding article, "Risk of assessing mortality risk in elective cardiac operations: age, creatinine, ejection fraction, and the law of parsimony".
authors.forename: Mark T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Lown
authors.forename: Christopher P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Gale
authors.forename: Brian A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Cattle
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: West
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D019540:Area Under Curve; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality*; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013318:Stroke Volume
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine