Highlights the high variability and poor reporting of 'failure to rescue' definitions in postoperative outcome studies, recommending standardized reporting.
Failure to rescue is an important concept in the study of postoperative outcomes, although its definition is highly variable and poorly reported. Researchers should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to defining failure to rescue.
Wells et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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