Who Is at Risk for Postdischarge Nausea and Vomiting after Ambulatory Surgery?

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APFEL C. C., PHILIP B. K., Cakmakkaya O. S., SHILLING A., SHI Y., LESLIE J. B., ...More

ANESTHESIOLOGY, vol.117, no.3, pp.475-486, 2012 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

Background: About one in four patients suffers from postoperative nausea and vomiting. Fortunately, risk scores have been developed to better manage this outcome in hospitalized paplied to a development dataset and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was calculated in a validation dataset.