Days Alive and Out of Hospital Validation of a Patient-centered Outcome for Perioperative Medicine

Conclusions Days alive and out of hospital is a feasibly measured patient-centered outcome that is associated with clinically sensible patient characteristics, surgical complexity, in-hospital complications, and longer-term outcomes. Days alive and out of hospital forms a novel patient-centered outcome for future clinical trials and observational studies for adult surgical patients.
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research