NEW ORLEANS—Interindividual variability in assigning ASA physical status scores to patients may one day become a thing of the past, thanks to the development of a new machine learning algorithm (ML-ASA) that determines the score using widely available patient data, according to new research.
This hospital registry cohort study concluded that by using such data, the ML-ASA can predict 30-day mortality with an accuracy that is superior to that of anesthesiologist-led ASA scores, a finding