The Comprehensive Complication Index offers a standardized, more sensitive metric for summarizing postoperative complications based on the Clavien-Dindo classification.
Offers a more sensitive tool for postoperative morbidity tracking; leaves open effects on decisions and trial endpoints.
The CCI summarizes all postoperative complications and is more sensitive than existing morbidity endpoints. It may serve as a standardized and widely applicable primary endpoint in surgical trials and other interventional fields of medicine. The CCI can be readily computed on the basis of tabulated complications according to the Clavien-Dindo classification (available at www.assessurgery.com).
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