Risk stratification tools for predicting morbidity and mortality in adult patients undergoing major surgery: Qualitative systematic review

Anesthesiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 959-981

  Moonesinghe, Suneetha Ramani ^a,b   Mythen, Michael G ^a,b   Das, Priya ^a   Rowan, Kathryn M ^c   Grocott, Michael P W ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c and London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS PHYSICAL STATUS SCORE; APACHE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTSMOUTH PHYSIOLOGY AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR THE ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND THE SURGICAL RISK SCALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL RISK SCALE; SURGICAL RISK SCORE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887633834     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182a4e94d     Document Type: Review

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