Karuna Wongtangman, Boudewijn Aasman, Shweta Garg, Annika S Witt, Arshia A Harandi, Omid Azimaraghi, Parsa Mirhaji, Selvin Soby, Preeti Anand, Carina P Himes, Richard V Smith, Peter Santer, Jeffrey Freda, Matthias Eikermann, Priya Ramaswamy
OBJECTIVE: The ASA physical status (ASA-PS) is determined by an anesthesia provider or surgeon to communicate co-morbidities relevant to perioperative risk. Assigning an ASA-PS is a clinical decision and there is substantial provider-dependent variability. We developed and externally validated a machine learning-derived algorithm to determine ASA-PS (ML-PS) based on data available in the medical record. DESIGN: Retrospective multicenter hospital registry study. SETTING: University-affiliated hospital networks...
March 8, 2023: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia