To encourage implementation of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) NSQIP Risk Calculator for total gastrectomy for gastric cancer, its predictive performance for this specific procedure should be validated. We assessed its discriminatory accuracy and goodness of fit for predicting 12 adverse outcomes....
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program surgical risk calculator (ACS-NSQIP SRC) has been designed to predict morbidity and mortality and help stratify surgical patients. This study evaluates the performance of the SRC for patients undergoing surgery for colorectal ...
In addition to surgery duration, we found that functional dependence prior to surgery increases the risk of diagnosis of postoperative VTE. The NSQIP surgical risk calculator places patients into 3 categories of function: independent patients do not require assistance with and activities of daily living...
Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for patients and surgeons J Am Coll Surg (2013) M.J. Englesbe et al. Seasonal variation in surgical outcomes as measured by the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical...
Analysis and interpretation of data: Ju, Cohen, Bilimoria, Latus, Scholl, Schwab, Byrd, Dellinger, Hall Drafting of manuscript: Ju, Bilimoria, Hall Critical revision: Ju, Cohen, Bilimoria, Latus, Scholl, Schwab, Byrd, Ko, Dellinger, Hall Acknowledgment The authors would like to thank the foll...