Performance of prognostic scores in prediction of 30-day postoperative mortality in COVID-19 patients after emergency surgery: A retrospective cohort study
Conclusions: SOFA score has a higher sensitivity to predict 30-day postoperative mortality as compared to POSSUM and P-POSSUM. However, in absence of a control group of non-COVID-19 patients, actual risk attributable to COVID-19 infection could not be determined.
Source: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: ST Karna R Gouroumourty Z Ahmad S Trivedi P Thaware P Singh Source Type: research