Emergency Major Abdominal Surgical Procedures in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Mortality and Functional Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To systematically review the current literature on mortality and functional outcomes after emergency major abdominal surgery in older adults.

Design

Systematic literature search and standardized data collection of primary research publications from January 1994 through December 2013 on mortality or functional outcome in adults aged 65 and older after emergency major abdominal surgery using PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane, and CINAHL. Bibliographies of relevant reports were also hand-searched to identify all potentially eligible studies.

Setting

Systematic review of retrospective and cohort studies using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses, Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology, Strengthening the Repor

SUBMITTER: Cooper Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4827160 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature