• Annals of surgery · Nov 2017

    Textbook Outcome: A Composite Measure for Quality of Elective Aneurysm Surgery.

    • Eleonora G Karthaus, Niki Lijftogt, Linde A D Busweiler, and Bernard H P Elsman.
    • *Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands †Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing, Leiden, The Netherlands ‡Department of Surgery, Deventer Hospital, Deventer, The Netherlands §Department of Surgery, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ¶Department of Surgery, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Ann. Surg. 2017 Nov 1; 266 (5): 898-904.

    ObjectiveTo investigate a new composite quality measurement, which comprises a desirable outcome for elective aneurysm surgery, called "Textbook Outcome" (TO).BackgroundSingle-quality indicators in vascular surgery are often not distinctive and insufficiently reflect the quality of care.MethodsAll patients undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, registered in the Dutch Surgical Aneurysm Audit between 2014 and 2015 were included. TO was defined as the percentage of patients who had abdominal aortic aneurysm-repair without intraoperative complications, postoperative surgical complications, reinterventions, prolonged hospital stay [endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) ≤4 d, open surgical repair (OSR) ≤10 d], readmissions, and postoperative mortality (≤30 d after surgery/at discharge). Case-mix adjusted TO rates were used to compare hospitals and to compare individual hospital results for different procedures.ResultsFive thousand one hundred seventy patients were included, of whom 4039 were treated with EVAR and 1131 with OSR. TO was achieved in 71% of EVAR and 53% of OSR. Important obstacles for achieving TO were a prolonged hospital stay, postoperative complications, and readmissions. Adjusted TO rates varied from 38% to 89% (EVAR) and from 0% to 97% (OSR) between individual hospitals. Hospitals with a high TO for OSR also had a high TO for EVAR; however, a high TO for EVAR did not implicate a high TO for OSR.ConclusionsTO generates additional information to evaluate the overall quality of the care of elective aneurysm surgery, which subsequently can be used by hospitals to improve the quality of their care.

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