To describe the type and quality of care being delivered to children (aged 1 - 16 years old) undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in the United Kingdom by measuring baseline compliance against evidence-based recommendations and identifying variations in care between individual hospitals.
The Children's Acute Surgical Abdomen Programme (CASAP) is a prospective national observational cohort study which aims to characterise the type and quality of care being delivered to children having emergency abdominal surgery. The investigators aim to recruit every U.K. hospital undertaking this type of surgery in children, and capture information on 5000 patients over the study period. The data collected will include information on patient risk factors, compliance with process quality indicators and the incidence and type of postoperative complications encountered. The data collected will be used to describe the current epidemiology of this patient group and to develop and internally validate a risk prediction tool for children undergoing emergency abdominal surgery. This tool be used to provide hospitals with their own risk-adjusted outcome measures and can subsequently be used to inform bedside decision-making. Patients will be followed up for 10 years through a data linkage process with National Health Service (NHS) Digital national databases.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
3,100
Nottingham Children's Hospital
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Number of patients experiencing postoperative morbidity.
Defined by the Clavien Dindo grading system: Grade I - Any deviation from the normal postoperative course without the need for pharmacological treatment or surgical, endoscopic and radiological interventions Grade II - Requiring pharmacological treatment with drugs other than such allowed for grade I complications. Blood transfusions and total parenteral nutrition are also included. Grade III Requiring surgical, endoscopic or radiological intervention * IIIa Intervention not under general anesthesia * IIIb Intervention under general anesthesia Grade IV Life-threatening complication (including Central Nervous System complications)\* requiring Intensive Care Unit -management * IVa single organ dysfunction (including dialysis) * IVb multiorgan dysfunction Grade V Death of a patient
Time frame: 30 days
The length of hospital stay in days
Time frame: 30 days
The number of patients who do not survive their in-hospital stay censored at 30 days.
Time frame: 30 days
The mortality rate of children undergoing emergency abdominal surgery at 90 days, 1 year and 10 years post procedure date.
Time frame: 90 days, 1 year and 10 years.
The readmission rate for children after having emergency abdominal surgery
Time frame: 90 days and 1 year
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