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Lucas M. Bachmann

Researcher at University of Zurich

Publications -  250
Citations -  14595

Lucas M. Bachmann is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 231 publications receiving 12636 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucas M. Bachmann include University of Bern & University of York.

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Minimal Changes of Serum Creatinine Predict Prognosis in Patients after Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study

TL;DR: After cardiac and thoracic aortic surgery, 30-d mortality was lowest in patients with a slight postoperative decrease in serum creatinine, and increases in mortality remained significant in multivariate analyses, including postoperative renal replacement therapy.
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A readers' guide to the interpretation of diagnostic test properties: clinical example of sepsis.

TL;DR: Various measures of test accuracy are discussed: specificity, specificity, receiver operating characteristic curves, positive and negative predictive values, likelihood ratios, pretest probability, posttest probability, and diagnostic odds ratio.
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Diagnostic Value of Systematic Biopsy Methods in the Investigation of Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the cancer detection rates and complications of different extended prostate biopsy (greater than 6 cores) schemes for diagnostic evaluation in men scheduled for biopsy to identify the optimal scheme.

Diagnostic Value of Systematic Biopsy Methods in the Investigation of Prostate Cancer

TL;DR: Prostate biopsy schemes consisting of 12 cores that add laterally directed cores to the standard sextant scheme strike the balance between the cancer detection rate and adverse events.