External validation of the Codman score in colorectal surgery: a pragmatic tool to drive quality improvement.
Richard Trafford SpenceKeegan GuidolinFayez A QuereshySami A ChadiDavid C ChangMatthew M HutterPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2023)
We propose that the six-variable Codman score is an efficient and actionable method for generating validated risk-adjusted outcome predictions and comparative benchmarks to drive quality improvement in colorectal surgery.