Development of an American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program: Morbidity and Mortality Risk Calculator for Colorectal Surgery

E. Cohen, Mark; Y. Bilimoria, Karl; Y. Ko, Clifford; L. Hall, Bruce

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.01.043

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Development of an American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program: Morbidity and Mortality Risk Calculator for Colorectal Surgery

Published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons • Apr 18, 2009

Authors:

Mark E. Cohen

Karl Y. Bilimoria

Clifford Y. Ko

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Surgical decision-making and informed patient consent both benefit from having accurate information about risk. But currently available risk estimating systems have one or more limitations associated with lack of specificity to operation type, size of sample (reliability), range of outco...

Subject

Medicine

Calculator

Logistic regression

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