Authors
TEF Abbott, AJ Fowler, P Pelosi, M Gama De Abreu, AM Møller, J Canet, B Creagh-Brown, M Mythen, T Gin, MM Lalu, E Futier, MP Grocott, MJ Schultz, RM Pearse, P Myles, TJ Gan, A Kurz, P Peyton, D Sessler, M Tramèr, A Cyna, GS De Oliveira Jr, C Wu, M Jensen, H Kehlet, Mari Botti, O Boney, G Haller, M Grocott, T Cook, L Fleisher, M Neuman, D Story, R Gruen, S Bampoe, Lis Evered, D Scott, B Silbert, D van Dijk, C Kalkman, M Chan, H Grocott, R Eckenhoff, L Rasmussen, L Eriksson, S Beattie, D Wijeysundera, G Landoni, K Leslie, B Biccard, S Howell, P Nagele, T Richards, A Lamy, M Gabreu, A Klein, T Corcoran, D Jamie Cooper, S Dieleman, E Diouf, D McIlroy, R Bellomo, A Shaw, J Prowle, K Karkouti, J Billings, D Mazer, M Jayarajah, M Murphy, J Bartoszko, R Sneyd, S Morris, R George, R Moonesinghe, M Shulman, M Lane-Fall, U Nilsson, N Stevenson, W van Klei, L Cabrini, T Miller, N Pace, S Jackson, D Buggy, T Short, B Riedel, V Gottumukkala, B Alkhaffaf, M Johnson
Publication date
2018/5/1
Source
British journal of anaesthesia
Volume
120
Issue
5
Pages
1066-1079
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
There is a need for robust, clearly defined, patient-relevant outcome measures for use in randomised trials in perioperative medicine. Our objective was to establish standard outcome measures for postoperative pulmonary complications research.
Methods
A systematic literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, Web of Science, SciELO, and the Korean Journal Database. Definitions were extracted from included manuscripts. We then conducted a three-stage Delphi consensus process to select the optimal outcome measures in terms of methodological quality and overall suitability for perioperative trials.
Results
From 2358 records, the full texts of 81 manuscripts were retrieved, of which 45 met the inclusion criteria. We identified three main categories of outcome measure specific to perioperative pulmonary outcomes: (i) composite outcome measures of multiple pulmonary outcomes (27 definitions …
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