The ACS NSQIP Pediatric Surgical Risk Calculator provides patient-specific postoperative risk estimates to aid in shared decision-making for pediatric surgeries.
May aid shared decision-making in pediatric surgery; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
The ACS NSQIP Pediatric Surgical Risk Calculator was developed using standardized and audited multi-institutional data from the ACS NSQIP Pediatric, and it provides empirically derived, patient-specific postoperative risks. It can be used as a tool in the shared decision-making process by providing clinicians, families, and patients with useful information for many of the most common operations performed on pediatric patients in the US.
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