The Difference in Preoperative Evaluation That is Given by a Senior Physician, a Specialist, and a Computer Program

There is an increasing need and interest in being able to empirically estimate customized, patient-specific risks for virtually all surgical operations in a user-friendly format. The ACS (American College of Surgeons) surgical risk calculator is a decision-support tool based on reliable multi institutional clinical data, which can be used to estimate the risks of most operations.1 The aim of this study is to compare the assessment provided by the The ACS Surgical Risk Calculator with the assessment provided by a senior and a resident anesthesiologist, and by that comparison to establish the need for the ACS calculator