How robust are recommended waiting times to pacing after cardiac surgery that are derived from observational data?

Alexander Tindale Ioana Cretu Ross Haynes Naomi Gomez Sunil K Bhudia Rebecca E Lane Mark J Mason Darrel P Francis

Published in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)

When commonly used automated statistical methods are applied to observational data with the aim of defining the optimal time to pacing after cardiac surgery, the suggested answer is likely to be similar to the average time to pacing in that cohort.

Keyphrases

cardiac resynchronization therapy
electronic health record
big data
machine learning
left ventricular
cross sectional
heart failure
deep learning
high throughput
artificial intelligence