Predicting mortality and morbidity in emergency general surgery patients in a Jordanian Tertiary Medical Center: a retrospective validation study of the Emergency Surgery Score (ESS).
Liqaa A RaffeeSami A AlmasarwehTagleb S MazahrehKhaled AlawnehNadeem Bilal AlabdallahMohammad A Al HamoudHamza A AburayyaFadi S AyoubFadi IssaGreg CiottonePublished in: BMJ open (2022)
The ESS is a robust, accurate predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity of emergency general surgery patients. Furthermore, it is an all-important tool to enhance emergency general surgery practices, in terms of mitigating risk, quality of care measures and patient counselling.
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