Estimating post-operative complication rates in patients with primary brain tumours from routine administrative data: A national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Neurosurgery is an important element of brain tumour treatment but carries with it the risk of complications. Previous work has defined a narrow set of general post-operative complications which are used as Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), but these are not brain tumour specific and do not capture the full range of complications. As a result, there is no way of measuring post-operative complications in neurosurgery at a national level.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, observational cohort study using a comprehensive national administrative dataset from England on adult brain or spinal tumour patients to better define post-operative complications. We generated and validated a new list of post-operative complications - ICL list. The ICL list contains codes s

SUBMITTER: Mauricaite R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12919839 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature