Open AccessRisk-adjustment in hepatobiliarypancreatic surgery
Author(s) -
Hemant M. Kocher,
Paris Tekkis,
Palepu Gopal,
Ameet G. Patel,
Simon Cottam,
I. S. Benjamin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v11.i16.2450
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , elective surgery , odds ratio , surgery , risk factor , anesthesiology , abdominal surgery , emergency medicine , anesthesia
The present study evaluates the performance of the POSSUM, the American Society of Anesthetists (ASA), APACHE and Childs classification in predicting mortality and morbidity in hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgery. We describe especially the limitations and advantages of risk in stratifying the patients.