[A simple point score for definition of the risk of postoperative complications].
During a 5-year-period we recorded prospectively 5,823 patients who had undergone general surgery and documented the postoperative complications as wound infection, pneumonia, reoperations and death. A score including all these complications was developed to evaluate the risk of an operation more exactly than using the wound infection rate alone. This method seems to provide a continuous monitoring and the comparison of the complication risks of certain operations within a quality assurance program. For gastric and colon surgery we found a correlation between postoperative antibiotic use and score, but not between score and postoperative hospitalization time.
Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik, Köln-Lindenthal.
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D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012086:Reoperation; D012307:Risk Factors; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
Ein einfacher Punktescore zur Definition des postoperativen Komplikationsrisikos.