The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Surgical Risk Calculator accurately estimates the chance of a patient experiencing postoperative complications ...

CHICAGO (August 14, 2013) — The new American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) Surgical Risk Calculator is a revolutionary new tool that quickly and ...

A study describing how the Surgical Risk Calculator was developed is available online at the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. "Predicting postoperative risks, and identifying patients ...

The Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator was built using data collected from more than 775,000 operations from 925 centers participating in MBSAQIP from January 1, 2013, through June 30, 2018.

The authors leveraged the highly accurate outcomes data collected by ACS NSQIP to create the Surgical Risk Calculator. "The quality and rigor of the ACS NSQIP clinical outcomes data was critical ...