Why the study?
Existing risk stratification models for pediatric perioperative mortality rely on patient comorbidities but fail to consider the intrinsic risk of surgical procedures.
Does integrating intrinsic surgical risk with patient comorbidities improve the prediction of 30-day mortality in pediatric surgical patients?
Does integrating intrinsic surgical risk with patient comorbidities improve the prediction of 30-day mortality in pediatric surgical patients?
Integrating intrinsic surgical risk with patient comorbidities provides a highly discriminative model for predicting 30-day mortality in pediatric surgical patients.
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Surgical specialty does not independently predict pediatric perioperative mortality; leaves open whether procedure-comorbidity interactions improve risk models.
Nasr et al. (2019) studied this question.
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