Risk Prediction Models for Post-Operative Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Patients with cirrhosis are at increased risk of postoperative mortality. Currently available tools to predict postoperative risk are suboptimally calibrated and do not account for surgery type. Our objective was to use population-level data to derive and internally validate cirrhosis surgical risk models.

Approach and results

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the Veterans Outcomes and Costs Associated with Liver Disease (VOCAL) cohort, which contains granular data on patients with cirrhosis from 128 U.S. medical centers, merged with the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) to identify surgical procedures. We categorized surgeries as abdominal wall, vascular, abdominal, cardiac, chest, or orthopedic and us

SUBMITTER: Mahmud N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902392 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature