Thu.Apr 13, 2023

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When Should Patients Consider Orthopedic Surgery?

USMD Health System

Musculoskeletal pain can be debilitating in your day-to-day life. Learn about the options for orthopedic surgery at USMD Hospital at Arlington.

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Clinical risk prediction and major surgery

The Anesthesia Blog

We are delighted to present an original article and systematic review on the use of risk scores to predict 30-day mortality after surgery in this month’s issue of Anaesthesia. Darbyshire et al. evaluated the predictive ability of three novel risk scores for 30-day mortality after emergency bowel surgery. The results showed that the individual scores were reasonable predictors of mortality, but they were poorly calibrated.

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