The present critical review was conducted to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the
Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), an assessment tool designed specifically to predict long …

Geriatric trauma constitutes an increasingly recognized problem. Aging results in a
progressive decline in cellular function which leads to a loose of their capacity to respond to …

Background Elderly patients are a growing and vulnerable group with an elevated
perioperative risk. Perioperative treatment pathways that take these patients' special risks …

Objective: We sought to assess the performance of the Predictive OpTimal Trees in
Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) tool in elderly emergency surgery (ES) patients …

Background Malnutrition is an important risk factor for adverse postoperative outcomes such
as infection and delayed wound healing, often resulting in longer hospital stay and higher …

Background Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a common procedure with high mortality leading
to several efforts to record and reduce mortality. Risk scores currently used by quality …

Background Surgical volume-outcome relationships have been described for a variety of
procedures. There is scant literature on total institutional volume and outcomes in patients …

Context Palliative care (PC) for seriously ill surgical patients, including aligning treatments
with patients' goals and managing symptoms, is associated with improved patient-oriented …

Background In hospitalized patients, abnormal plasma electrolyte concentrations are
frequent and have been linked to poor outcomes following acute surgery. The aim of this …

Importance Emergency general surgery (EGS) represents 11% of hospitalizations, and
almost half of these hospitalized patients are older adults. Older adults have high rates of …