Why the study?
Do operations performed urgently have distinct rates of morbidity and mortality compared with procedures performed either electively or emergently?
Do operations performed urgently have distinct rates of morbidity and mortality compared with procedures performed either electively or emergently?
Urgent surgery has distinct morbidity and mortality rates compared to elective or emergency surgery, highlighting the need for urgency-based risk stratification in predictive models.
Supports urgency-specific risk stratification in practice; leaves open prospective validation of tailored models.
This study highlights the need for improved risk stratification on the basis of urgency because operations performed urgently have distinct rates of morbidity and mortality compared with procedures performed either electively or emergently. Because we tie quality outcomes to reimbursement, such a category should improve predictive models and more accurately reflect the quality and value of care provided by surgeons who do not have traditional elective practices.
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Mullen et al. (2017) studied this question.