Comorbidity-based risk stratification in emergency general surgery: insights from a low-resource setting

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Emergency general surgery (EGS) requires acute management of high-risk surgical patients, necessitating rapid and accurate risk stratification for informed decision-making and quality benchmarking. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee has previously identified six criteria for an ideal risk stratification tool for EGS. These include the ability to accurately quantify morbidity and mortality risk in the EGS population, use readily obtainable objective data, be applicable early-prior to surgical intervention, be applicable in non-operative patients, can be used for auditing purposes, and application that facilitates use in clinical practice.1

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