Population
7306 anaesthetized patients undergoing abdominal, urological, gynaecological, or orthopaedic surgery
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
In-hospital
Authors
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May inform preoperative risk counseling in surgical patients; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
In-hospital mortality following anaesthesia and surgery is 1.2% and can be predicted using five key preoperative variables including age, chronic heart disease, and renal disease.
Pedersen et al. (1990) studied this question.
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