NCT04827641

Severity Grading of Unexpected Events in Pediatric Surgery

Severity Grading of Unexpected Events in Pediatric Surgery - Evaluation of Five Classification Systems and the Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI®)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 670 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hannover Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Data on all patients who experienced unexpected events at the Department of Pediatric Surgery Hannover Medical School from 1st January 2017 to 30th November 2020 were documented prospectively. The department represents the only tertiary academic institution of the german province of Lower-Saxony (8 million inhabitants). The clinical spectrum of the department includes surgery of the neonate, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, thoracic and oncological surgery and pediatric urology.

Conditions

• Complication of Surgical Procedure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Severity Grading assessment in children with perioperative unexpected events	Systematic documentation of all unexpected events was carried out by designated team members during daily routine team conferences. Briefly, on-call team members and all other staff reported on any unexpected event that had occurred within the previous 24 hours, after weekends during the past 72 hours. Events included those that had occurred in inpatients, outpatients and in the pediatric emergency department. Data concerning each event included patient demographics, diagnoses, treatments/operations and types of events.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2023-07-01
• First posted: 2021-04-01
• Last updated: 2021-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany