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ReviewNature medicine2023

Consensus recommendations on how to assess the quality of surgical interventions.

Anja Domenghino, Carmen Walbert, Dominique Lisa Birrer, Milo A Puhan, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Outcome4Medicine consensus group

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Review in Nature medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anja DomenghinoDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-409X
Carmen WalbertBiogen International GmbH, Baar, Switzerland.
Dominique Lisa BirrerDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Milo A PuhanEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI), University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich, Switzerland. miloalan.puhan@uzh.ch.
Pierre-Alain ClavienDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. clavien@access.uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-7905
Outcome4Medicine consensus group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postoperative complications represent a major public health burden worldwide. Without standardized, clinically relevant and universally applied endpoints, the evaluation of surgical interventions remains ill-defined and inconsistent, opening the door for biased interpretations and hampering patient-centered health care delivery. We conducted a Jury-based consensus conference incorporating the perspectives of different stakeholders, who based their recommendations on the work of nine panels of experts. The recommendations cover the selection of postoperative outcomes from the perspective of patients and other stakeholders, comparison and interpretation of outcomes, consideration of cultural and demographic factors, and strategies to deal with unwarranted outcomes. With the recommendations developed exclusively by the Jury, we provide a framework for surgical outcome assessment and quality improvement after medical interventions, that integrates the main stakeholders' perspectives.

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PatientsPostoperative ComplicationsSurgical Procedures, OperativeHumans

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