Svenja Sliwinski, Sara Fatima Faqar-Uz-Zaman, Jan Heil, Lisa Mohr, Charlotte Detemble, Julia Dreilich, Dora Zmuc, Wolf O Bechstein, Sven Becker, Felix Chun, Wojciech Derwich, Waldemar Schreiner, Christine Solbach, Johannes Fleckenstein, Natalie Filmann, Andreas A Schnitzbauer
BACKGROUND: A structured risk assessment of patients with validated and evidence-based tools can help to identify modifiable factors before major surgeries. The Protego Maxima trial investigated the value of a new digitized risk assessment tool that combines tools which can be easily used and implemented in the clinical workflow by doctors and qualified medical staff. The hypothesis was that the structured assessment and risk-grouping is predictive of short-term surgical quality reflected by complications and overall survival...
April 12, 2024: Patient Safety in Surgery