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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

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 , 5 (12) , Article e010006. 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010006. Green open access

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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
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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