Assessment of Textbook Outcome in Laparoscopic and Open Liver Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Textbook outcome (TO) is a composite measure that captures the most desirable surgical outcomes as a single indicator, yet to date TO has not been defined and assessed in the field of laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) and open liver resection (OLR).

Objective

To obtain international agreement on the definition of TO in liver surgery (TOLS) and to assess the incidence of TO in LLR and OLR in a large international multicenter database using a propensity-score matched analysis.

Design, setting, and participants

Patients undergoing LLR or OLR for all liver diseases between January 2011 and October 2019 were analyzed using a large international multicenter liver surgical database. An international survey was conducted among all members of the European-African H

SUBMITTER: Gorgec B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8173471 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature