Population
438 patients undergoing a diverse group of routine, moderate-risk, elective surgical procedures
Design
Cohort, blinded
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
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High postoperative morbidity persists after moderate-risk elective surgery; observational predictors of tissue trauma and perfusion merit prospective interventional trials.
Complications after routine, moderate-risk, elective surgery are common (27%) and involve multiple organ systems, which can be effectively characterized using a 9-point postoperative morbidity survey.
Bennett-Guerrero et al. (1999) studied this question.