ArticleDiscover oncology2025
Variation in perioperative practice in elective colorectal cancer surgery: opportunities for quality improvement.
Article in Discover oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundUnderstanding the variation in perioperative care across a population is fundamental to improving the management and outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer. Currently, there is limited individual patient level data available to assess this variation. Therefore, as part of an improvement programme, we conducted an audit to understand perioperative care.
methodsAudit items were developed to cover the pre, intra and postoperative phases of the colorectal cancer surgical pathway and collected for patients undergoing an elective procedure. The audit was conducted at 14 Hospital Trusts, participating in the Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme, located in the Yorkshire and Humber region, North of England.
resultsInformation on 216 patients were collected. Functional assessment by Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing varied across the region (performed in 100% patients at three Trusts, but not at all in six Trusts, P < 0.001). The provision of postoperative high dependency and critical care also varied across the region (in seven Trusts ≥ 80% of patients went to a monitored bed or higher level of care; in three Trusts ≥ 90% of patients received ward care, P < 0.001). The median duration of preoperative starvation varied by Trust (2 to 13 h, P < 0.001). The intraoperative dose of opiate administered to patients varied significantly between Trusts (P < 0.001).
conclusionsThere is wide variation in both the provision and practice of perioperative care across a large region in the North of England. The findings are informing a programme of improvement science-based work to improve the management and outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.