Quality Improvement Interventions to Reduce Anastomotic Leak

Overview

 

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Featured Article

article imageESCP EAGLE Safe Anastomosis Collaborative and NIHR Global Health Research Unit in Surgery (2024). Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention to reduce anastomotic leak following right colectomy (EAGLE): pragmatic, batched stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial in 64 countries. The British journal of surgery, 111(1), znad370. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znad370

 

Reviewers

Methodological Reviewer
Francesco Pata, PhD, FACS, MD, Sant’Antonio Abate Hospital
Clinical Reviewer
Anita Gadgil, MBBS, MS, DNB, Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
Clinical Reviewer
Patricia Sylla, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

 

Questions

Please read the above article and consider the following questions:

  1. What is the clinical question being addressed?
  2. What is the study design? Is it appropriate?
  3. What are the sources of data?
  4. Are the data accurate and valid?
  5. What was the intervention and how was it assessed?
  6. What outcomes were considered?
  7. Are there other clinically important outcomes that should be considered?
  8. How large and precise was the difference in the outcome?
  9. Are there any factors (confounders) that might explain the differences in the results?
  10. State the conclusion. Have the authors addressed the clinical question posed?
  11. Does the evidence support the conclusion?