Paediatric perioperative mortality estimation-Are we barking up the wrong tree?

Hannah Lonsdale¹, Clyde T Matava^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Pediatric Anesthesia, University of Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Hannah Lonsdale et al. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb;67(2):124-125.

doi: 10.1111/aas.14164. Epub 2022 Nov 9.

Hannah Lonsdale¹, Clyde T Matava^{2

3}

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Pediatric Anesthesia, University of Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: anaesthesia; big data; outcomes; paediatrics; quality; risk stratification.

Comment on

Anaesthesia related mortality data at a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital in Western Australia.
Hauser ND, Sommerfield A, Drake-Brockman TFE, Slevin L, Chambers NA, Bergesio R, Christiansen E, von Ungern-Sternberg BS. Hauser ND, et al. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2023 Feb;67(2):142-149. doi: 10.1111/aas.14163. Epub 2022 Nov 17. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2023. PMID: 36307936 Free PMC article.

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