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Evaluation and validation of Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity and Portsmouth‐POSSUM scores in predicting morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgeries
Author(s) -
Karan Nupur,
Siddiqui Suhail,
Sharma Kailash S.,
Pantvaidya Gouri H.,
Divatia Jigeeshu V.,
Kulkarni Atul P.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
head and neck
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.012
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1097-0347
pISSN - 1043-3074
DOI - 10.1002/hed.26354
Subject(s) - medicine , head and neck cancer , cohort , larynx , perioperative , pharynx , retrospective cohort study , head and neck , cohort study , laryngectomy , cancer , surgery
Background Identification of risk factors for perioperative complications helps in the prognostication. We wanted to determine whether Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) and Portsmouth‐POSSUM (P‐POSSUM) can be used in patients undergoing head and neck oncosurgery. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of 1265 patients after they had major head and neck oncosurgeries. Demographic, surgical and outcome data was collected. We separately analyzed data for patients who had undergone cancer surgery for oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx. We calculated the POSSUM and P‐POSSUM scores. Results POSSUM scoring system had moderate discrimination (AUC = 0.61) and good calibration ( P = .36) for the entire study cohort and in the subgroup. Since there were no deaths in the entire cohort, we were not able to check predictive ability of the scores, for mortality. Conclusions We found that POSSUM had moderate discrimination and good calibration for morbidity prediction in head and neck cancer surgeries, as well as for the selected subgroup.