Validation of Artificial Intelligence-Based POTTER Calculator in Emergency General Surgery Patients Undergoing Laparotomy: Prospective, Bi-Institutional Study.

Journal: Journal of the American College of Surgeons
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Predictive Optimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) calculator, a widely used interpretable artificial intelligence risk calculator, has been validated in population-based studies and shown to predict outcomes in patients who underwent emergency general surgery better than surgeons. We sought to prospectively validate POTTER.

Authors

  • Vahe S Panossian
    From the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Panossian, Argandykov, Arnold, Gebran, Paranjape, Hwabejire, DeWane, Velmahos, Kaafarani).
  • Dias Argandykov
    From the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Panossian, Argandykov, Arnold, Gebran, Paranjape, Hwabejire, DeWane, Velmahos, Kaafarani).
  • Suzanne C Arnold
    From the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Panossian, Argandykov, Arnold, Gebran, Paranjape, Hwabejire, DeWane, Velmahos, Kaafarani).
  • Anthony Gebran
    - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Surgery - Pittsburgh - PA - Estados Unidos.
  • Charudutt N Paranjape
    From the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Panossian, Argandykov, Arnold, Gebran, Paranjape, Hwabejire, DeWane, Velmahos, Kaafarani).
  • John O Hwabejire
    Department of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital, 2041 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20060, USA.
  • Michael P DeWane
    From the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Panossian, Argandykov, Arnold, Gebran, Paranjape, Hwabejire, DeWane, Velmahos, Kaafarani).
  • George C Velmahos
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Haytham Ma Kaafarani
    Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: hkaafarani@mgh.harvard.edu.