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Patient Risk Factors

• 1.6.BMJ 1 Barnard - Is social deprivation an independent predictor of outcomes following cardiac surgery
• 1.6.NCBI 2 Charlton - Impact of deprivation on occurrence outcomes and health care costs of people with multiple morbidity
• 1.7 home 1 Finlaysson - Major abdominal surgery in nursing home residents
• 1.7 home 2 Neuman - Survival and functional outcomes after hip fracture surgery among nursing home residents
• 1.16 BMI 1 Hainer - Obesity paradox does exist
• 1.16 BMI 2 Turrentine - The relationship between BMI and 30 day mortality risk
• 1.16 BMI 3 Nepogodiev - Determining surgical complications in the overweight - DISCOVER
• 2.6 Sodium 1 Cecconi Preoperative abnormalities in serum sodium
• 2.8 Urea 1 Goren - Perioperative acute kidney injury
• 2.9 Creatinine 1 Mooney - Preoperative estimates of glomerular filtration rate as predictors of outcome
• 2.10 Albumin 1 Gibbs - Preoperative serum albumin level as a predictor of operative mortality and morbidity
• 2.12 Haemoglobin 1 Musallam - Preoperative anaemia and postoperative outcomes
• 2.22 cerebro 1 Liao - Outcomes after surgery in patients with previous stroke
• 2.24 dementia 1 Hugo - Dementia and Cognitive Impairment
• 2.32 alcohol 1 Oppedal - Preoperative alcohol cessation prior to elective surgery
• Santhiripala et al - The older surgical patient - to operate or not? A state of the art review (2020)

Preoperative

• 2.7 Potassium 1 Moonesinghe - Risk stratification tools for predicting morbidity and mortality
• 2.13 Pulse 1 Abbott - Preoperative heart rate and myocardial injury after non cardiac surgery
• 2.16 Sats 1 Mazo - Prospective external validation of a predictive score for postoperative pulmonary complications
• 2.28 ASA 1 Protopapa - Development and validation of the Surgical Outcome Risk Tool
• 2.29 exercise 1 Moran - Role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing as a risk assessment method
• 2.35 bowel 1 Guenaga - Mechanical bowel preparation for elective colorectal surgery
• 2.36 carbohydrate 1 Smith - Preoperative carbohydrate treatment for enhancing recovery after elective surgery
• 6.7 heart 1 Fleisher - Guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing non cardiac surgery

Intraoperative

• 1.9.BMJ 1 Aylin - Day of week procedure and 30 day mortality
• 2.17 ECG 1 Fleisher - Perioperative cardiac evaluation and management of patients undergoing non cardiac surgery
• 2.19 NYHA 1 Fleisher - Perioperative beta blockade in non cardiac surgery
• 3.14 duration 1 Kim - Surgical duration and risk of venous thromboembolism
• 6.3 pulmonary 2 Futier - A Trial of intraoperative low tidal volume ventilation in abdominal surgery
• 6.3 pulmonary 3 Neto - Protective versus Conventional Ventilation for Surgery
• 6.6 renal 1 Calvert - Perioperative acute kidney injury
• 6.10 blood 1 Whitlock - Harms associated with single unit perioperative transfusion
• 6.10 blood 2 - Practice guidelines for Perioperative Blood Management

Postoperative

• 1.18 mortality 1 Moonesinghe - Survival after postoperative morbidity
• 1.18 mortality 2 Khuri - Determinants of long term survival after major surgery
• 1.18 mortality 3 Straatman - Long term survival after complications following major abdominal surgery
• 1.19 Unplanned Readmission 1 Glance - Hospital readmission after noncardiac surgery
• 2.5 NCEPOD 1 Knowing the Risk
• 2.27 liver 1 Pearse - Mortality after surgery in Europe
• 2.35 bowel 2 Gustaffson - Enhanced recovery after surgery
• 4.1 temperature 2 Warttig - Interventions for treating inadvertent postoperative hypothermia
• 6.3 pulmonary 1 Agostini - Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery
• 6.5 abdo 1 Short - Chewing gum for postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function
• 6.11 pain 1 Chou - Guidelines on the management of Postoperative Pain
• 6.13 stay 1 Moonesinghe - Survival after postoperative morbidity
• 6.13 stay 2 Khuri - Determinants of long term survival after major surgery
• 7.3 complications 1 Dindo - Classfication of Surgical Complications
• 7.3 complications 2 Guerrero - Use of postoperative morbidity survey to evaluate patients with prolonged hospitalisation
• 7.3 complications 3 Grocott - Postoperative morbidity survey validation
• 7.3 complications 4 Davies - Reliability and validity of the postoperative morbidity survey

Patient reported outcomes and experience

• Walker: Bauer patient satisfaction questionnaire - SNAP-1 study in 15,040 UK patients
• Chazapis: Validation of QOR15 in a UK ambulatory surgery  population
• Stark, Myles et al:  Development and Validation of QOR15
• Shulman: Disability free survival after surgery
• Barnett - systematic review of patient satisfaction measures in anaesthesia and perioperative care

 Quality Improvement 

• Ivers and Barrett: Using report cards and dashboards to drive quality improvement: lessons learnt and lessons still to learn (2018)
• Etchells and Woodcock: Value of small sample sizes in rapid-cycle quality improvement projects 2: assessing fidelity of implementation for improvement interventions (2017)
• Marshall et al: What we know about designing an effective improvement intervention (but too often fail to put into practice) (2016)
• Goodman et al: Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature (2016)
• Leviton and Melichar: Balancing stakeholder needs in the evaluation of healthcare quality improvement (2016)
• Pannick: Beyond clinical engagement: a pragmatic model for quality improvement interventions, aligning clinical and managerial priorities (2015)
• Ocloo and Matthews: From tokenism to empowerment: progressing patient and public involvement in healthcare improvement (2016)
• Trainees and healthcare organisations: roles and responsibilities in quality improvement and audit. Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2018)
• Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial). T.J. Stephens et al (2018)
• Effectiveness of a national quality improvement programme to improve survival after emergency abdominal surgery: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial. R.M. Pearse et al (2018)
• Variable effectiveness of stepwise implementation of nudge-type interventions to improve provider compliance with intraoperative low tidal volume ventilation. V.N. O'Reilly-Shah et al (2018)
• Creating space for quality improvement. Allwood et al (2018)
• Co-production: when users define quality. Elwyn et al (2019)
• A modified Delphi study to identify the features of high quality measurement plans for healthcare improvement projects. Woodcock et al (2020)