Open AccessThe Urgent Surgery Elderly Mortality risk score: a simple mortality score
Author(s) -
Inés Eguaras Córdoba,
Javier Herrera Cabezón,
Pablo Sánchez Acedo,
Arkaitz Galbete,
Francisco GuillénGrima
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2019.6187/2019
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , framingham risk score , mortality rate , odds ratio , surgery , multivariate analysis , perforation , retrospective cohort study , risk of mortality , abdominal surgery , materials science , disease , punching , metallurgy
an increasing number of elderly patients undergo urgent abdominal surgery and this population has a higher risk of mortality. The main objective of the study was to identify mortality-associated factors in elderly patients undergoing abdominal surgery and to design a mortality scoring tool, the Urgent Surgery Elderly Mortality risk score (the USEM score).
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