Introduces the Accordion Severity Grading System to standardize the reporting and grading of surgical complications across small and large studies.
May improve consistency in grading surgical complications; leaves open validation before widespread adoption.
Current methods for reporting the severity of complications incompletely fulfill the needs of authors of surgical studies. A new system-the Accordion Severity Grading System-is presented. The Accordion system can be used more readily for small as well as large studies. It introduces standard definition of simple quantitative terms and presents a standard tabular reporting system. This system should bring the field closer to a common severity grading method for surgical complications.
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