Why the study?
Intestinal obstruction remains a global surgical challenge accounting for 3% to 30% mortality worldwide despite medical and surgical advances.
What are the management outcomes and associated factors among surgically treated intestinal obstruction cases?
What are the management outcomes and associated factors among surgically treated intestinal obstruction cases?
The study highlights an 86.4% favorable outcome rate for surgically treated intestinal obstruction in a Southern Ethiopian hospital, identifying key clinical and surgical factors associated with unfavorable outcomes.
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High favorable outcomes in this Ethiopian cohort may inform local risk stratification; leaves open prospective validation of associated factors.
Girma et al. (2021) studied this question.
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