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Record W4416975029 · doi:10.62463/surgery.231

Standardised Reporting Outcomes for trials investigating Surgical WOund Complications (ROSWOC); protocol for the development of a core outcomes set for trials evaluating interventions for the prevention of surgical wound complications.

2025· article· en· W4416975029 on OpenAlexaff
Kylie Sandy‐Hodgetts, Philip Russo, George Smith, Melissa Rochon, Tom Wainwright, Joshua Totty, Kenneth A McLean, Rebecca Aburn, Rhiannon Macefield, Neerod Kumar Jha, Aneel Bhangu, Sivesh K. Kamarajah, Piers Yates

Bibliographic record

VenueImpact Surgery · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDelphi Technique in Research
Canadian institutionsSt. Thomas Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurgical woundDelphi methodProtocol (science)Psychological interventionWound dehiscenceClinical trialWound careContext (archaeology)

Abstract

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Despite advances in surgical technique and wound management surgical wound complications such as surgical site infection and surgical wound dehiscence still pose a considerable global burden. Inconsistencies in measuring and reporting of this phenomenon pervade study designs, analysis and synthesis of the evidence, as such a core outcome set (COS) is required. The Reporting Outcomes for Surgical WOund Complications project (ROSWOC) aims to improve quality of reporting and evidence for surgical site infection and surgical wound dehiscence prevention trials. A COS for trials is required to homogenise outcomes for trials investigating prevention and management of surgical wound complications. Methods/design: This project aims to develop a core outcomes set following established methods; 1) define scope of work, 2) conduct a scoping review, 3) organising facilitated workshops with service users and 4) conduct Delphi surveys, and 5) conduct face-to-face meetings with key stakeholders. Discussion: Following obtaining consensus for the core set, further work will be carried out to describe a core measuring set. The articulation of an agreed set of core outcomes for trials investigating surgical site infections and surgical wound dehiscence will improve prevention studies into surgical wound complications into the future. Trial registration: The ROSWOC project is registered in the COMET database: (http://www.comet-initiative.org/studies/details/) registered November 2022.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.117
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.177
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.401
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1170.177
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.803
GPT teacher head0.688
Teacher spread0.115 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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