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: Tags: General Surgery Source Type: research