Adjusted Age-Adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index Score as a Risk Measure of Perioperative Mortality before Cancer Surgery

• Chun-Ming Chang,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Wen-Yao Yin,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Chang-Kao Wei,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Chin-Chia Wu,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Yu-Chieh Su,

  Affiliations Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Chia-Hui Yu,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Ching-Chih Lee

  * E-mail: hematcd2@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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