Validation of the Al-based Predictive OpTimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) Calculator in Patients 65 Years and Older.

Journal: Annals of surgery
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the performance of the Predictive OpTimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) tool in elderly emergency surgery (ES) patients.

Authors

  • Lydia R Maurer
    Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  • Prahan Chetlur
    Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Daisy Zhuo
    Interpretable AI, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Majed El Hechi
    Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • George C Velmahos
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Jack Dunn
    Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn, Colin Pawlowski, John Silberholz, Alexander Weinstein, and Ying Daisy Zhuo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Eddy Chen, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Harvard Medical School; Aymen A. Elfiky, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Dimitris Bertsimas
    Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn, Colin Pawlowski, John Silberholz, Alexander Weinstein, and Ying Daisy Zhuo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Eddy Chen, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Harvard Medical School; Aymen A. Elfiky, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Haytham M A Kaafarani
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.