Validation of the American College of Surgeons surgical risk calculator for thoracic surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in medicine and surgical techniques make it possible to operate on selected comorbid elderly patients for whom risk assessment is essential. We aimed to validate the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) surgical risk calculator specifically for thoracic surgery.

Methods

This study retrospectively included 283 consecutive patients who all underwent various thoracic surgeries at our center. Considering "serious complication" as the most important outcome, we compared the predicted risk scores with the observed incidence of 30-day morbidity and mortality. We calculated the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) with 95% confidence intervals for each outcome and utilized the Brier score

SUBMITTER: Tsvetkov N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11494536 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature