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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Outcome Reporting in Surgical Randomized Controlled Trials

Glen, Peter January 2016 (has links)
Background: In September 2005, scientific journals began requiring trial protocol registration to increase transparency and accountability. Objective: My primary objectives were: develop a database of linked protocols and publications for surgical randomized control trials (RCTs); estimate the proportion published; and determine the proportion exhibiting selective outcome reporting. Methods: A systematic search of the clinicaltrials.gov database was conducted identifying surgical RCTs, completed between 2006 and 2012. Protocols were linked with publications. Primary outcomes were compared. Results: We identified a cohort of 743 surgical RCT protocols. The proportion of registered trials which published their primary results was 0.49 (n=364). The proportion of selective outcome reporting was estimated to be 0.244, significantly lower than the previous estimate (p<0.001). Conclusion: More than half of the completed surgical RCTs were unpublished, and one quarter of those published selectively reported their primary outcome. This supports the notion that significant bias is present in the surgical literature.
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Évaluation des complications en chirurgie cardiaque : vers une évaluation globale des procédures chirurgicales

Hébert, Mélanie 04 1900 (has links)
Ce mémoire adresse la problématique de la présentation des résultats chirurgicaux en chirurgie cardiaque. Les complications postopératoires sont d’étiologie et de sévérité variées, peuvent atteindre plusieurs systèmes physiologiques et nécessitent différents degrés de traitements. Elles consistent en une source importante de morbidités pour le patient, mais ne sont toutefois pas toujours présentées de manière optimale dans les essais cliniques. En effet, les complications sont actuellement rapportées dans les études de manière hétérogène, ce qui nuit à la recherche en compliquant les comparaisons d’études, les revues systématiques et les méta-analyses. Plusieurs complications individuelles ont des systèmes de classification utilisés sporadiquement dans certains articles en chirurgie cardiaque, mais ceux-ci ne sont pas déployés de manière répandue. D’autre part, des classifications universelles s’appliquant à toutes les complications potentielles ont été adoptées dans la littérature chirurgicale, mais n’ont toutefois pas été implémentées en chirurgie cardiaque. L’étude menée dans le cadre de ce travail a adapté et appliqué la classification de Clavien-Dindo (CCD) et le Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) pour la première fois en chirurgie cardiaque. Mon étude démontre que les comorbidités importantes en chirurgie cardiaque et les chirurgies plus complexes sont prédictives de la sévérité des complications selon ces deux échelles. Également, le CCD et le CCI corrèlent avec les durées de séjour aux soins intensifs et à l’hôpital après une chirurgie cardiaque. En conclusion, la CCD et le CCI représentent de manière fiable la complexité de l’évolution postopératoire en chirurgie cardiaque. Cela pourrait adresser le manque de standardisation dans la présentation des complications dans les essais cliniques et uniformiser la manière de rapporter les événements adverses en chirurgie cardiaque. Cela aurait également de multiples applications dans les initiatives d'amélioration de la qualité des soins, dans les évaluations des procédures et des procédés, ainsi que dans l'avancement de la recherche. / This memoir addresses the challenge of outcome reporting in cardiac surgery. Postoperative complications are of varying etiology and severity, can affect several physiological systems and require different degrees of treatment. They are an important source of morbidity for the patient but are not always optimally presented in clinical trials. Indeed, complications are currently reported in studies in a heterogeneous manner, which hampers research by complicating study comparisons, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Many individual complications have classification systems that are used sporadically in some articles in cardiac surgery, but these are not widely used. On the other hand, universal classifications that apply to all potential complications have been adopted in the surgical literature, but none have been implemented in cardiac surgery yet. The study conducted as part of this work adapted and applied the Clavien-Dindo Complications Classification (CDCC) and the Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) for the first time in cardiac surgery. My study shows that the important comorbidities in cardiac surgery and more complex surgeries are predictive of the severity of complications according to both scales. Moreover, the CCD and CCI also correlate with the lengths of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital after cardiac surgery. In conclusion, the CDCC and CCI reliably represent the complexity of the postoperative evolution in cardiac surgery. This could address the inconsistency with which complications are currently presented in surgical trials and standardize the way adverse outcomes are reported in cardiac surgery. This would have multiple applications in quality of care improvement initiatives, in evaluations of procedures and processes, and in advancement of research.

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