Methods: All ES patients in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality
Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) 2007 to 2013 database were included (derivation …

The use of risk stratification tools (RST) aids in clinical triage, decision making and quality
assessment in a wide variety of medical fields. Although emergency general surgery (EGS) …

The definition of sepsis continues to be as dynamic as the management strategies used to
treat this. Sepsis-3 has replaced the earlier systemic inflammatory response syndrome …

Background The Predictive Optimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) tool is an
artificial intelligence-based calculator for the prediction of 30-day outcomes in patients …

Based on high quality surgery and scientific data, scientists and surgeons are committed to
protecting patients as well as healthcare staff and hereby provide this Guidance to address …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Over a million older patients in the United States are admitted
yearly for emergency general surgery (EGS) conditions. Seven procedure types dominate …

BACKGROUND The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) was recently validated as a scoring
system to predict mortality in emergency surgery (ES) patients. We sought to examine the …

More than 500,000 emergency general surgery (EGS) procedures are performed annually in
the United States, with an estimated cost in excess of $6 billion. 1 Compared with major …

BACKGROUND The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) was recently developed and
retrospectively validated as an accurate mortality risk calculator for emergency general …

Abstract Background: The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) was validated recently as an
accurate and user-friendly post-operative mortality risk calculator specific for Emergency …