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.
Supports days alive and out of hospital as a feasible perioperative outcome; leaves open prospective validation before clinical use.
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.
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