Population
1,195,825 inpatient or admit day of surgery cases from the 2012-2013 National Surgical Quality Improvement…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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Identifies high-risk postoperative complications to prioritize for clinical surveillance; leaves open whether targeted interventions for.
Bleeding, respiratory failure, septic shock, and renal failure are the postoperative complications with the highest attributable 30-day mortality in surgical patients.
Freundlich et al. (2018) studied this question.
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