Protocol for CAMUS Delphi Study

Melbourne Health

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Complications; Urogenital, Postprocedural

Treatments: Other: Comprehensive questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04976946

2020.046

Details and patient eligibility

About

Multi-staged, international Delphi study that aims to establish criteria for standardised complication reporting in Urology.

Full description

The CAMUS Delphi Study: A Consensus on Reporting of Complications After Urological Surgeries is a multi-staged, international Delphi study that aims to establish criteria for standardised complication reporting in Urology. The initial survey consists of a 12-part questionnaire that will aim to reach consensus on a wide range of contentious issues in Urological surgery using the frameworks of both the established Clavien-Dindo Classification (CDC) and the new CAMUS Classification.

To ensure comprehensive and comparable complication reporting across centres worldwide, a conclusive uniform language for reporting complications must be created and subsequently integrated. Accurate reporting will allow for more precise allocation of resources, improve unit efficiency, and reduce healthcare burden, while providing clinicians with a better understanding of intra- and post-operative morbidity. If a comprehensive, homogenous reporting construct is integrated worldwide, the potential to build and develop a universal database with complications from all centres around the world will surely provide invaluable data to create new guidelines and recommendations, ultimately improving patient counselling and surgical quality of care.

Enrollment: 750 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Local and international consultant Urologists, accredited Urology trainees, consultant Anaesthetists and consultant ICU specialists will be invited to complete the survey. Critical care physicians who are primarily Urological anaesthetists or have experience in complication reporting will be targeted.

Exclusion criteria

• All other specialists that do not meet the inclusion criteria.
• Under 18 years of age.

Trial design

750 participants in 3 patient groups

Urologists

Description:

Local and international consultant Urologists and accredited Urology trainees.

Treatment:

Other: Comprehensive questionnaire

Anaesthetists

Description:

Local and international consultant anaesthetists. Critical care physicians who are primarily Urological anaesthetists or have experience in complication reporting will be targeted.

Treatment:

Other: Comprehensive questionnaire

ICU specialists

Description:

Local and international consultant ICU specialists. Critical care physicians who are primarily Urological focused or have experience in complication reporting will be targeted.

Treatment:

Other: Comprehensive questionnaire