Assessment of Surgical Complications With Respect to the Surgical Indication: Proposal for a Novel Index

Introduction: The Clavien–Dindo classification is a broadly accepted surgical complications classification system, grading complications by the extent of therapy necessary to resolve them. A drawback of the method is that it does not consider why the patient was operated on primarily.Methods: We des...

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Main Authors: Grégoire B. Morand, Nanina Anderegg, Tobias Kleinjung, Jörg E. Bohlender, Dorothe Veraguth, Martina A. Broglie, David Holzmann, Alexander M. Huber, Christof Röösli, Michael B. Soyka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Surgery
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2021.638057/full