Traditional surgical outcome measures include minor and major complications, hospital
length of stay and sometimes longer‐term survival. Each of these is important but there …

Summary The QoR Score, QoR-15, and QoR-40 are valid and recommended endpoints for
perioperative clinical trials, and there is guidance as to what constitutes a minimal clinically …

Background Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs are multimodal care
pathways designed to minimize the physiological and psychological impact of surgery for …

Abstract Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic Days alive and out of
hospital is an easily obtained patient-centered outcome What This Article Tells Us That Is …

Background Studies investigating outcomes of delirium using large-scale routine data are
rare. We performed a two-centre study using the 4 'A's Test (4AT) delirium detection tool to …

Background Surgical audit, sometimes including public reporting, is an important foundation
of high quality health care. We aimed to assess the validity of a novel outcome metric, days …

Rationale: Population studies suggest improved sepsis outcomes with statins, but the results
of randomized controlled trials in patients with sepsis and organ dysfunction in critical care …

Abstract Study objective The QoR-15 scale is a validated tool to assess the quality of
postoperative recovery (QoR). Our objective was to assess the association between the …

OBJECTIVES: Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) conducted in adult ICU patients
increasingly include patient-important outcomes other than mortality. This comes with …

More than 300 million patients undergo surgery worldwide each year. Pain associated with
these procedures is associated with short-and long-term negative sequelae for patients …