POSSUM and Portsmouth POSSUM for predicting mortality

Prytherch, David; S Whiteley, Mark; Higgins, B.; C Weaver, P; G Prout, W; Powell, S

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00840.x

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POSSUM and Portsmouth POSSUM for predicting mortality

Published in British journal of surgery • Sep 1, 1998

Authors:

David Prytherch

Mark S Whiteley

B. Higgins

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a need for an accurate measure of surgical outcomes so that hospitals and surgeons can be compared properly regardless of case mix. POSSUM (Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity) uses a physiological score and an operative seve...

Subject

Medicine

Logistic regression

Surgery

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