• Fariba Abbassi, Carmen Walbert, Henrik Kehlet, GrocottMichael P WMPWPerioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton and University of Southampton, Southampton, UK., Milo A Puhan, and Pierre-Alain Clavien.
• Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Br J Anaesth. 2023 Dec 1; 131 (6): 969971969-971.

AbstractStandardised and universal perioperative endpoint reporting are the cornerstone for outcomes assessment, reliable clinical trials, and health services research. The Outcome4medicine initiative recently reported consensus recommendations on how to assess the quality of surgical interventions, proposing a framework for surgical outcome assessment and quality improvement after medical interventions. In the same field, the Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine - Core Outcome Measures for Perioperative and Anaesthetic Care (StEP-COMPAC) group recently proposed standardised and valid measures of mortality and morbidity, derived from a three-stage Delphi process. Here a core group of the Outcome4medicine conference discusses how these two initiatives are aligned and emphasises the importance of standardised outcome assessment by integrating the perspectives of different stakeholders.Copyright © 2023 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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