Predicting mortality and morbidity in emergency general surgery patients in a Jordanian Tertiary Medical Center: a retrospective validation study of the Emergency Surgery Score (ESS).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) is a predictive tool used to assess morbidity and mortality rates in patients undergoing emergent surgery. This study explores the ESS's predictive ability and reliability in the Jordanian surgical population.

Design

A retrospective validation study.

Setting

A tertiary hospital in Jordan.

Participants

A database was created including patients who underwent emergent surgery in King Abdullah University Hospital from January 2017 to June 2021.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Relevant preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative variables were retrospectively and systematically gathered, and the ESS was calculated for each patient accordingly. In addition, a multivariable logistic regression analysis was p

SUBMITTER: Raffee L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature