Measuring the seriousness of surgical illness

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to scale the seriousness of 68 clinical surgical illnessess by physicians and nurses through the magnitude estimation method. Data allow some conclusions: 1) the clinical surgical illnesses

aorta aneurysmectomy, cerebrum aneurysmectomy and myocardium revascularization were considered of higher gravity, while the clinical surgical illnesses adenoidectomy, amygdalectomy and uterus curettage of less gravity in all the scales obtained through different psychophysical direct methods and 2) the scale of ratio of gravity of clinical surgical illnesses is valid, stable and consistent as the exponent obtained (0.74) through the matching of lines lengths and dynamometric forces was not significantly different than the exponent established (0.77) by the transitoriness of the scales, or better, the one obtained in the calibration tasks by Faleiros Sousa (1)