Open Access<p>Application of POSSUM and P-POSSUM in Surgical Risk Assessment of Elderly Patients Undergoing Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery</p>
Author(s) -
Zhiwei Hu,
Rui-Qiang Xin,
Yijun Xia,
Guang-Peng Jia,
Chen Xiao-xu,
WenJuan Shi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s258659
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , receiver operating characteristic , mortality rate , gastroenterology , surgery
To investigate the efficacy and accuracy of the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) and Portsmouth-POSSUM (P-POSSUM) scoring systems in the risk assessment of postoperative complications and death in elderly patients undergoing hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.