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The comprehensive complication index: a novel continuous scale to measure surgical morbidity.

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The CCI summarizes all postoperative complications and is more sensitive than existing morbidity endpoints and may serve as a standardized and widely applicable primary endpoint in surgical trials and other interventional fields of medicine.
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Objective:To develop and validate a comprehensive complication index (CCI) that integrates all events with their respective severity.Background:Reporting of surgical complications is inconsistent and often incomplete. Most studies fail to provide information about the severity of complications, or i

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Recommendations for laparoscopic liver resection: a report from the second international consensus conference held in Morioka

Go Wakabayashi, +42 more
- 01 Apr 2015 - 
TL;DR: The Second International Consensus Conference on Laparoscopic Liver Resections (LLR) was held in Morioka, Japan, from October 4 to 6, 2014 to evaluate the current status of laparoscopic liver surgery and to provide recommendations to aid its future development.
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Cirse Quality Assurance Document and Standards for Classification of Complications: The Cirse Classification System.

TL;DR: The purpose of this CIRSE guideline is to provide a classification system of complications based on combining outcome and severity of sequelae, and the ultimate challenge will be the adoption of this system by practitioners in different countries and health economies within the European Union and beyond.
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The ability of prehabilitation to influence postoperative outcome after intra-abdominal operation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Prehabilitation appears to be beneficial in decreasing the incidence of postoperative complications; however, more high-quality studies are needed to validate its use in the preoperative setting.
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Classification of surgical complications: a new proposal with evaluation in a cohort of 6336 patients and results of a survey.

TL;DR: The new complication classification appears reliable and may represent a compelling tool for quality assessment in surgery in all parts of the world.
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The Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications: five-year experience.

TL;DR: This 5-year evaluation provides strong evidence that the classification of complications is valid and applicable worldwide in many fields of surgery, and subjective, inaccurate, or confusing terms such as “minor or major” should be removed from the surgical literature.
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A methodological framework for assessing health indices

TL;DR: This work explores the implications of index purpose for each stage of instrument development: selection of the item pool, item scaling, item reduction, determination of reliability, of validity, and of responsiveness.
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