Harmonization of adverse events monitoring following thoracic surgery: Pursuit of a common language and methodology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Thoracic surgery carries significant risk of postoperative adverse events (AEs). Multiple international recording systems are used to define and collect AEs following thoracic surgery procedures. We hypothesized that a simple-yet-ubiquitous approach to AE documentation could be developed to allow universal data entry into separate international databases.

Methods

AE definitions of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (CATS) system and 4 international databases were matched and compared. This consisted of reviewing the definition of each AE as described by their respective database and assessing compatibility with the CATS system. We developed a single set of 4 drop-down menus to enable clear classification and facilitated data entry, using 3 single-select

SUBMITTER: Sigler G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390191 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature