Days alive and out of hospital is proposed as a novel, feasible patient-centered outcome for future clinical trials and observational studies in adult surgical patients.
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.
Jerath et al. (Thu,) studied this question.