Risk Factors for Mortality in Emergency General Surgery Patients
Emergency general surgery (EGS) patients have increased risk of mortality compared with their elective counterparts, and a large amount of work has recently been performed on this topic using national billing data. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine risk factors for mortality in a large regional EGS dataset which included both administrative and clinical data points. We hypothesized that many important risk factors for mortality are clinical datapoints only available via electronic medical record (EMR).
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Caroline E. Reinke, Samuel Wade Ross, Marc KOWALKOWSKI, Huaping Wang, Kyle William Cunningham, Timothy Hetherington, Addison May, Brent Duane Matthews Tags: General Surgery Source Type: research