Evaluation of a Preoperative Adverse Event Risk Index for Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients 65 years or older are the most frequent users of operative resources and are also the most vulnerable to postoperative adverse events (AEs). Frailty indices are increasingly being used for preoperative risk stratification within head and neck cancer surgery, but most models lack a multifactorial basis and cannot be directly applied to clinical practice. A practical risk index is needed for clinicians to gauge risk factors preoperatively.

Objective

To develop a preoperative risk index of short-term major postoperative AEs for patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery.

Design

Cohort analysis of patients from multiple medical centers undergoing inpatient ablative or reconstructive head and neck cancer surgery and registered in the American Coll

SUBMITTER: Mascarella MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481426 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature