Boney, O;
Bell, M;
Bell, N;
Conquest, A;
Cumbers, M;
Drake, S;
Galsworthy, M;
... Metcalf, L; + view all
(2015)
Identifying research priorities in anaesthesia and perioperative care: final report of the joint National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia/James Lind Alliance Research Priority Setting Partnership.
BMJ Open
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, Article e010006. 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010006.
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OBJECTIVE: To identify research priorities for Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine. DESIGN: Prospective surveys and consensus meetings guided by an independent adviser. SETTING: UK. PARTICIPANTS: 45 stakeholder organisations (25 professional, 20 patient/carer) affiliated as James Lind Alliance partners. OUTCOMES: First 'ideas-gathering' survey: Free text research ideas and suggestions. Second 'prioritisation' survey: Shortlist of 'summary' research questions (derived from the first survey) ranked by respondents in order of priority. Final 'top ten': Agreed by consensus at a final prioritisation workshop. RESULTS: First survey: 1420 suggestions received from 623 respondents (49% patients/public) were refined into a shortlist of 92 'summary' questions. Second survey: 1718 respondents each nominated up to 10 questions as research priorities. Top ten: The 25 highest-ranked questions advanced to the final workshop, where 23 stakeholders (13 professional, 10 patient/carer) agreed the 10 most important questions:▸ What can we do to stop patients developing chronic pain after surgery?▸ How can patient care around the time of emergency surgery be improved?▸ What long-term harm may result from anaesthesia, particularly following repeated anaesthetics?▸ What outcomes should we use to measure the 'success' of anaesthesia and perioperative care?▸ How can we improve recovery from surgery for elderly patients?▸ For which patients does regional anaesthesia give better outcomes than general anaesthesia?▸ What are the effects of anaesthesia on the developing brain?▸ Do enhanced recovery programmes improve short and long-term outcomes?▸ How can preoperative exercise or fitness training, including physiotherapy, improve outcomes after surgery?▸ How can we improve communication between the teams looking after patients throughout their surgical journey? CONCLUSIONS: Almost 2000 stakeholders contributed their views regarding anaesthetic and perioperative research priorities. This is the largest example of patient and public involvement in shaping anaesthetic and perioperative research to date.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Identifying research priorities in anaesthesia and perioperative care: final report of the joint National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia/James Lind Alliance Research Priority Setting Partnership |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010006 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | ANAESTHETICS, INTENSIVE & CRITICAL CARE, SURGERY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475125 |
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