The comprehensive complication index a novel and more sensitive endpoint for assessing outcome and reducing sample size in randomized controlled trials

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 757-763

  Slankamenac, Ksenija ^a   Nederlof, Nina ^b   Pessaux, Patrick ^c   De Jonge, Jeroen ^b   Wijnhoven, Bas P L ^b   Breitenstein, Stefan ^a   Oberkofler, Christian E ^a   Graf, Rolf ^a   Puhan, Milo A ^d   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

Complication; Comprehensive complication index; Morbidity; Outcome research; Randomized controlled trial; Sample size; Valid endpoint

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; COLON RESECTION; COMPREHENSIVE COMPLICATION INDEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; BIOASSAY; CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; METHODOLOGY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84926097549     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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