Why the study?
Postoperative complications increase morbidity, mortality, length of stay, and healthcare costs, requiring a better understanding of the pathophysiology of risk factors to improve perioperative patient assessment.
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Optimizing modifiable risk factors like anemia, hypoalbuminemia, obesity, and smoking is essential to reduce postoperative morbidity and mortality.
<ns3:p>Postoperative complications lead to an increase in morbidity and mortality, increase in hospital length of stay and costs for health care. Understanding the pathophysiology of various risk factors causing post-operative complications, helps in better understanding of the subject and perioperative patient assessment.</ns3:p> <ns3:p>The risk factors selected for the purpose of the study include modifiable risk factors and includes results from various single centre and multi-centre cohort studies, and systematic reviews and data from various meta-analysis by various authors on different subjects.</ns3:p> <ns3:p>The importance of optimizing the modifiable risk factors like hypoalbuminemia, anemia, obesity and smoking can be understood from the above study. It is important to remember that morbidity is multifactorial and taking into account only a single risk factor will not improve the outcomes. This signifies the importance of multidisciplinary approach when treating the patient.</ns3:p>
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