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Surgery

a scoring system combining physiological and operative severity scores to predict morbidity and mortality for surgical audit.

In surgery, POSSUM refers to a scoring system combining physiological and operative severity scores to predict morbidity and mortality for surgical audit. This meaning comes from Copeland (1991) in Journal of British Surgery.[1]

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References

Copeland, G. P., Jones, D., & Walters, M. (1991). POSSUM: A scoring system for surgical audit. Journal of British Surgery, 78(3), 355-360. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800780327

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