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It seems more appropriate to use the Grace specific index in this subgroup of our case-mix.
The GRACE prognostic index has been validated among SESAMI patients[ 16].
Two validated measures of cardiovascular risk-severity were used in this study: The first measure was the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) prognostic index.
To evaluate whether depressive-associated increases in health service consumption were consistent across cardiac illness risk severity levels, subgroup analyses were performed in which the sample was stratified according to median GRACE prognostic index score and median DASI scores.
The GRACE prognostic index provides a score that reflects the probability of dying within 6 months post-AMI based on age, development (or history) of heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, systolic blood pressure, Killip class, initial serum creatinine concentration, elevated initial cardiac markers, cardiac arrest on admission, and ST segment deviation[ 8].
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Under progressive indexing, by contrast, the initial benefits of the top earners would be calculated by price indexing, while the initial benefits for the bottom third would still be calculated by wage indexing (a grace period would be put in place for workers within three years of retirement).
The c indices using the simplified GRACE model with substitutions for Killip class and serum creatinine were available for 99.2% of patients; these were 0.82 for both 1 and 3-year models).
Signals of drought in GRACE TWS correlated well with MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data in most areas.
