Preoperative risk evaluation scores are used prior to surgery to predict perioperative risks.
They are also a useful tool to help clinicians communicate the risk–benefit balance of the …

Background Risk prediction tools can be used in the perioperative setting to identify high‐
risk patients who may benefit from increased surveillance and monitoring in the …

BACKGROUND: Delay of surgery for hip fracture is associated with increased risk of
morbidity and mortality, but the effects of surgical delays on mortality and resource use in the …

Background Methods to accurately predict the risk of in-hospital mortality are important for
applications including quality assessment of healthcare institutions and research. Objective …

Background: Little is known about patterns of coexisting conditions and their influence on
clinical care or outcomes in adults admitted to hospital for community-acquired pneumonia …

Objective To determine whether certain groups of otolaryngologists (ORLs) are treating
cohorts of patients with more comorbidities. Study Design Cross‐sectional population …

Background: Diagnoses recorded in administrative databases have limited utility for
accurate identification of severe sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) …

Background External validation of published risk stratification models is essential to
determine their generalizability. This study evaluates the performance of the Risk …

Objectives: To examine the association between surgical site infections (SSIs) and hospital
readmissions and all-cause mortality, and to estimate the attributable health care costs of …

Background Frailty is an aggregate expression of susceptibility to poor outcomes, owing to
age-, and disease-related deficits that accumulate within multiple domains. Older patients …