Risk Scoring in Perioperative and Surgical Intensive Care Patients: A Review

Current Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-236

  Hariharan, Seetharaman ^a   Zbar, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

intensive care; prognosis; risk evaluation; scoring systems; severity of illness; surgical patients

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ORGAN FAILURE SCORING SYSTEM; APACHE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE SCORING SYSTEM; ORGAN SYSTEM FAILURE SCORING SYSTEM; PENETRATING ABDOMINAL TRAUMA INDEX; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORING SYSTEM; SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION SCORING SYSTEM; TRAUMA SCORING SYSTEM; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33744821668     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cursur.2006.02.005     Document Type: Review

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