American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification as a reliable predictor of postoperative medical complications and mortality following ambulatory surgery: an analysis of 2,089,830 ACS-NSQIP outpatient cases
Abstract Background Seventy percent of surgical procedures are currently performed in the outpatient setting. Although the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Classification ability to predict risk has been evaluated for in-patient surgeries, an evaluation in outpatient surgeries ha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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Series: | BMC Surgery |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01256-6 |