An evaluation of the POSSUM surgical scoring system
โ Scribed by M. S. Whiteley; Dr D. R. Prytherch; B. Higgins; P. C. Weaver; W. G. Prout
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 391 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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## Background: The physiological and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity (possum) and portsmouth possum (p-possum) equations were derived from a heterogeneous general surgical population and have been used successfully as audit tools to provide risk-adjusted oper
## Abstract ## Background Much current interest is focused on the use of the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) and the Portsmouth predictor equation (p-POSSUM) for risk-adjusted surgical audit. The Surgical Risk Score (SRS) has been