Increased anatomic severity predicts outcomes: Validation of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma's Emergency General Surgery score in appendicitis

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 73-78

  Hernandez, Matthew C ^a   Aho, Johnathon M ^a   Habermann, Elizabeth B ^a   Choudhry, Asad J ^a   Morris, David S ^a   Zielinski, Martin D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency general surgery; Patient outcomes; Quality of care; Scoring grading; Staging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; APPENDECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAUMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84994082437     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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