Perioperative medicine & outcomes
A Point-Based Risk Calculator for Mortality After Hepatectomy
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing hepatectomy, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dataset, 2014–2020
- Participants
- 38,561 patients
- Exposure
- Training set vs Test set
- Training setn = 26,397
- Test setn = 12,164
- Outcome
- 30-day postoperative mortality (point-based risk calculator performance)
- Follow-up
- 30 days
Methodological detailsprediction model development and validation, temporal validation (training 2014–2018, test 2019–2020), National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dataset
- Prediction model development and validation
- Temporal validation (training 2014–2018, test 2019–2020)
- National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dataset
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Discrimination of point-based risk calculator for 30-day mortality
| Group | AUC |
|---|---|
| Test set | 0.719 (95% CI 0.681-0.757) |
Test set
AUC0.719 (95% CI 0.681-0.757)
- Nine independent predictors of mortality: age, DM, sex, sodium, albumin, bilirubin, serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), international normalized ratio, ASA classification score
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Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
A Point-Based Risk Calculator for Mortality After Hepatectomy. Anesth Analg. Published 12 June 2023. doi:10.
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