Risk assessment tools validated for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: a systematic review. Oliver, C. M., Walker, E., Giannaris, S., Grocott, M. P. W., & Moonesinghe, S. R. British journal of anaesthesia, 115(6):849–860, December, 2015.
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Emergency laparotomies are performed commonly throughout the world, but one in six patients die within a month of surgery. Current international initiatives to reduce the considerable associated morbidity and mortality are founded upon delivering individualised perioperative care. However, while the identification of high-risk patients requires the routine assessment of individual risk, no method of doing so has been demonstrated to be practical and reliable across the commonly encountered spectrum of presentations, co-morbidities and operative procedures. A systematic review of Embase and Medline identified 20 validation studies assessing 25 risk assessment tools in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy. The most frequently studied general tools were APACHE II, ASA-PS and
@article{oliver_risk_2015,
	title = {Risk assessment tools validated for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: a systematic review.},
	volume = {115},
	copyright = {(c) The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.},
	issn = {1471-6771 0007-0912},
	doi = {10.1093/bja/aev350},
	abstract = {Emergency laparotomies are performed commonly throughout the world, but one in six patients die within a month of surgery. Current international initiatives to  reduce the considerable associated morbidity and mortality are founded upon delivering individualised perioperative care. However, while the identification of high-risk patients requires the routine assessment of individual risk, no method of doing so has been demonstrated to be practical and reliable across the  commonly encountered spectrum of presentations, co-morbidities and operative procedures. A systematic review of Embase and Medline identified 20 validation studies assessing 25 risk assessment tools in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy. The most frequently studied general tools were APACHE II, ASA-PS and},
	language = {eng},
	number = {6},
	journal = {British journal of anaesthesia},
	author = {Oliver, C. M. and Walker, E. and Giannaris, S. and Grocott, M. P. W. and Moonesinghe, S. R.},
	month = dec,
	year = {2015},
	pmid = {26537629},
	keywords = {APACHE, Emergencies, Humans, Laparotomy/*adverse effects/mortality, Prognosis, Reproducibility of Results, Risk Assessment/*methods, Severity of Illness Index, emergency laparotomy, postoperative mortality, prognostic tool, risk adjustment, risk assessment},
	pages = {849--860},
}

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