Development and validation of a national perioperative mortality risk model for pediatric surgery: The New Zealand Pediatric Surgical Risk Tool (NZRISK-PEDIATRIC)
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Dr Manisha Mistry, Mr. Luke Boyle, Dr Elsa Taylor, Dr Douglas Campbell
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Background
Risk prediction models are well established as an adjunct to perioperative decision making, but few exist for pediatric surgical outcomes. The majority of risk tools do not feature Australasian data and do not estimate mortality risk beyond 30-days. Our aim was to develop and validate a model for mortality risk prediction in children (age
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