Comment on "Routine Postsurgical Anesthesia Visit to Improve 30-day Morbidity and Mortality": An Homage to Outcome Measures Beyond Unequivocal Treatment Targets

Corina Bello¹, Thomas Heidegger^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Spitalregion Rheintal, Werdenberg, Sarganserland, Grabs, Switzerland.

Comment

Corina Bello et al. Ann Surg Open. 2023.

. 2023 Jul 26;4(3):e316.

doi: 10.1097/AS9.0000000000000316. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Corina Bello¹, Thomas Heidegger^{1

2}

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Spitalregion Rheintal, Werdenberg, Sarganserland, Grabs, Switzerland.

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Comment on

Routine Postsurgical Anesthesia Visit to Improve 30-day Morbidity and Mortality: A Multicenter, Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomized Interventional Study (The TRACE Study).
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