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Archive > October, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 10

Anesthesia Alert

A Better Way to Predict Operative Risk

Idrees Ahmad, MD

The ASA's Physical Status Classification System is used for purposes for which it was never intended, most notably as a barometer of the patient's operative risk and as a scale to predict whether an operation should proceed. Some payors have even used the ASA PS classification as the determining factor to justify if a patient can be admitted for elective surgery.

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