Postoperative Morbidity Index: A Quantitative Measure of Severity of Postoperative Complications

Postoperative complications are key outcomes of surgical procedures, but currently there is no uniform quantitative measure of complication severity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and establish feasibility of quantitative morbidity scores for several common abdominal surgical procedures.Using American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data, complications were identified in 5 common abdominal...