VALIDATION OF POSSUM, P-POSSUM AND THE SURGICAL RISK SCALE IN SURGICAL AUDIT OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING MAJOR GENERAL SURGICAL OPERATIONS IN HARARE.
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- Conditions
- Risk Scores
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000034455
- Lead Sponsor
- Allan Ngulube University of Zimbabwe Department of Surgery
- Brief Summary
891kb
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 201
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
Patients below the age of 18 years. Any patient managed conservatively. Any patient operated by a registrar with less than 2 years of surgical training. Day cases and any procedure categorised as minor. More than 1 missing result. Any patient requiring admission into a critical care unit post operatively but failed because of shortage of beds.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measuring actual 30 day Mortality and comparing it to the expected
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measuring actual30 day morbidity and comparing it to the expected.