Risk-adjusted surgical audit with the POSSUM scoring system in a developing country

Kon Yii, Ming; J Ng, K

doi:10.1046/j.0007-1323.2001.01979.x

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Risk-adjusted surgical audit with the POSSUM scoring system in a developing country

Published in British journal of surgery • Jan 1, 2002

Authors:

Ming Kon Yii

K J Ng

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) is an objective and appropriate scoring system for risk-adjusted comparative general surgical audit. This score was devised in the UK and has been used widely, but application of POSSUM...

Subject

Medicine

Audit

Mortality rate

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