European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Apr 2021
Observational StudyMortality after abdominal emergency surgery in nonagenarians.
To search the pattern of diagnoses in nonagenarians undergoing emergency abdominal surgery between January 2009 and December 2013 in two hospitals. To test the hypothesis that pre-hospital functional status is an effective criterion for predicting postoperative mortality in nonagenarians after emergency abdominal surgery. ⋯ Our data support pre-admission functional status for predicting postoperative mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in nonagenarians.