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SUBMITTER: Kork F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4554144 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kork Felix F Balzer Felix F Krannich Alexander A Weiss Björn B Wernecke Klaus-Dieter KD Spies Claudia C
Medicine 20150201 8
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA PS) and the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) for the prediction of postoperative mortality. The ASA PS has been suggested to be equally good as the CCI in predicting postoperative outcome. However, these scores have never been compared in a broad surgical population. We conducted a retrospective cohort study in a German tertiary care university hospital. Predictive accuracy was compared usin ...[more]