In older patients undergoing emergency general surgery, specific combinations of comorbidities carry a higher risk burden than single comorbidities, highlighting the need for personalized prognostication.
For older patients, combinations of comorbidities portend additional risk beyond single comorbidities, and the associated risk burden is driven by the specific constellation of comorbidities present. Future work must continue to examine the effect of co-occurring diseases to provide personalized and realistic prognostication for older patients undergoing EGS. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:503-510, 2019.
Ho et al. (Sun,) studied this question.