Risk-adjusted prediction of operative mortality in oesophagogastric surgery with O-POSSUM

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 288-295

  Tekkis, P P ^a   McCulloch, P ^b   Poloniecki, J D ^c   Prytherch, D R ^d   Kessaris, N ^e   Steger, A C ^f  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e KENT AND SUSSEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR THE ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 1642307949     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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