Glasgow Prognostic Score as a predictive factor differentiating surgical site infection and remote infection following colorectal cancer surgery?

We read with interest the recent article indicating that a preoperative systemic inflammatory response is an underlying host characteristic that predisposes to postoperative infection in patients undergoing potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer. In this article, the Glasgow group found that elevated C-reactive protein together with low albumin levels (Glasgow prognostic score, GPS) were the only host-associated factors that had a high predictive value, which included 40% of patients affected by postoperative infectious complications ( Moyes et al, 2009 ).