TY - JOUR
T1 - The ‘long shadow’ of perioperative complications
T2 - association with increased risk of death up to 1 year after surgery
AU - Stundner, Ottokar
AU - Myles, Paul S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 British Journal of Anaesthesia
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Thirty-day mortality is widely used in medical and surgical outcomes research as a quality indicator, and as an endpoint in perioperative clinical trials. However, the validity of this metric has recently been questioned. In this issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Fowler and colleagues quantify, update, and put into perspective the looming suspicion that perioperative adverse events cast a ‘long shadow’ of increased mortality, far beyond the 30-day time frame. Their work not only raises important questions on how we should think about, analyse, and report ‘perioperative’ complications and mortality, but also stresses anaesthesiologist and surgeon roles as key stakeholders in patient long-term survival.
AB - Thirty-day mortality is widely used in medical and surgical outcomes research as a quality indicator, and as an endpoint in perioperative clinical trials. However, the validity of this metric has recently been questioned. In this issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Fowler and colleagues quantify, update, and put into perspective the looming suspicion that perioperative adverse events cast a ‘long shadow’ of increased mortality, far beyond the 30-day time frame. Their work not only raises important questions on how we should think about, analyse, and report ‘perioperative’ complications and mortality, but also stresses anaesthesiologist and surgeon roles as key stakeholders in patient long-term survival.
KW - long-term survival
KW - mortality
KW - outcomes research
KW - perioperative care
KW - postoperative complications
KW - surgical outcomes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128212581&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.bja.2022.03.014
DO - 10.1016/j.bja.2022.03.014
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 35410788
AN - SCOPUS:85128212581
SN - 0007-0912
VL - 129
SP - 471
EP - 473
JO - British Journal of Anaesthesia
JF - British Journal of Anaesthesia
IS - 4
ER -