Several team members have published an article in BMJ Open, 'Identification of outcomes to inform the development of a core outcome set for surgical innovation: a targeted review of case studies of novel surgical devices'.
The paper forms part of a wider study to develop a core outcome set (COS) for novel surgical procedures and devices. The authors, working with the Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, reviewed outcomes in a sample of 11 innovative surgical device case studies to identify relevant outcome domains.
These findings have been combined with other data sources to inform the development of a COS to measure and report in all studies evaluating novel surgical procedures/devices.
Mandatory reporting of this COS in future studies "will ensure that key outcomes of relevance to innovation that are important to patients and key stakeholder are included," say the team.