biostudies-literatureSevern and Peninsula Audit and Research Collaborative for Surgeons (SPARCS) and West Midlands Research Collaborative (WMRC) on behalf of the Bluebelle Study GroupMedical Research CouncilNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR)1738-1744https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5091629biostudies-literatureUnknown103(12)<h4>Background</h4>Designing RCTs in surgery requires consideration of existing evidence, stakeholders' views and emerging interventions, to ensure that research questions are relevant to patients, surgeons and the health service. When there is uncertainty about RCT design, feasibility work is recommended. This study aimed to assess how feasibility work could inform the design of a future pilot study and RCT (Bluebelle, HTA - 12/200/04).<h4>Methods</h4>This was a prospective survey of dressings used to cover abdominal wounds. Surgical trainees from 25 hospitals were invited to participate. Information on patient risk factors, operation type and type of wound dressings used was recorded for elective and unplanned abdominal procedures over a 2-week interval. The types of dressing used were sThe British journal of surgeryFeasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery.PMC5091629NF-SI-0514-1011412/200/04CL-2014-25-002MR/L004933/1MR/K025643/1Townsend DCourt EBlazeby JMSharples APapworth EKynaston JRogers CAStrong SFallaize RAtherton GNicholson ABarber ZTalbot HSharma ERing NCoast JReeves BCBlencowe NSFrank LMarriott PHotton ENeito TEkere CMathers JBanks JLongman RAndronis LBuchan SNewman PEllis LSellars HCutting JEriksson ACalvert MDonovan JYoung TPinkney TDBailey JHodkinson THardy Tvan der Nelson HMacefield RRooshenas LMonteiro de Barros JBamford RMason JMilne TUpchurch EYoussef HLee CReza LRowlands CSiassakos DNoble EChang JShariff UIves CTorrance ABird JMcMullan CFlorance CWoodward MDraycott TTafazal HZafar ZOrchard PClayton GIde KABlencowe NBennett JGreen NGooberman-Hill RGrant CWinter CPopplewell MThompson NSevern and Peninsula Audit and Research Collaborative for Surgeons (SPARCS) and West Midlands Research Collaborative (WMRC) on behalf of the Bluebelle Study GroupMagill LChapman TGreenwood ABhangu ASummerour VAnderson EfalseFeasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery.<h4>Background</h4>Designing RCTs in surgery requires consideration of existing evidence, stakeholders' views and emerging interventions, to ensure that research questions are relevant to patients, surgeons and the health service. When there is uncertainty about RCT design, feasibility work is recommended. This study aimed to assess how feasibility work could inform the design of a future pilot study and RCT (Bluebelle, HTA - 12/200/04).<h4>Methods</h4>This was a prospective survey of dressings used to cover abdominal wounds. Surgical trainees from 25 hospitals were invited to participate. Information on patient risk factors, operation type and type of wound dressings used was recorded for elective and unplanned abdominal procedures over a 2-week interval. The types of dressing used were s2016-01-01T00:00:00Z2016 Nov2025-04-03T22:39:23.486Z2019-03-27T02:28:03ZS-EPMC50916292748873010.1002/bjs.10274