Establishing a core outcomes set for massive transfusion: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma modified

Rondi B Gelbard1, Jeffry Nahmias, Saskya Byerly

  • 1From the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (R.B.G., J.B.H., J.K.), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Division of Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care (J.N.), University of California, Irvine, Orange, California; Department of Surgery (S.B.), University of Tennessee Health Science Campus, Memphis, Tennessee; Department of Surgery (M.Z.), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Department of Surgery (D.S.), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (E.R.H.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Surgery (J.W.S.), University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky; Division of Trauma, Acute Care and Critical Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.B.), Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Department of Surgery (B.Z.), University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (J.C.), School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery (B.A.C.), University of Texas Health McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas; Department of Surgery (M.C.), University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Surgery (O.L.G.), Division of Acute Care Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Surgery (L.Z.K.), Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California; Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health (E.E.M., D.D.Y.), University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Department of Surgery (C.M.R.), Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas; Department of Surgery (M.S.), Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; and Department of Surgery (J.L.S.), UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Summary

Researchers developed a core outcome set (COS) for massive transfusion (MT) research. This standardized set will improve data pooling and statistical power in future studies on severe hemorrhage management.