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Intraoperative ComplicationsICARUS-CNCT05270603

The Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting With Universal Standards - Calculator (ICARUS-C)

An observational study of Intraoperative Complications and Surgery--Complications, run by University of Southern California at 1 site in United States.

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Trial summary

As part of the initiative known as the Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting with Universal Standards (ICARUS) project, the investigators are working to develop a set of tools to aid in improving the homogenous reporting of intraoperative adverse events (iAEs). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
What is being tested?
ICARUS intraoperative adverse events calculator
How many people
2,000 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
15 Mar 2022to 1 Jun 2022
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: The study team will identify corresponding authors who have published articles at any point during 2019-2021 in key American and European scientific surgical journals. The study team plans to email up to 1500 authors from each of these journals - though, many of these journals will not likely have substantially fewer corresponding authors. Specifically, these journals will be associated with one or more of the following specialties: Anesthesiology Interventional Radiology Interventional Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Colon and rectal surgery General Surgery Gynecologic oncology Gynecology and obstetrics Neurological Surgery Ophthalmologic Surgery Oral and maxillofacial Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Otorhinolaryngology Plastic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery

Who may be able to join

  • Documented understanding, willingness, and agreement to participate in this study
  • Males and females; age 18 or older
  • Must be either English speaking or fluent with English medical terminology
  • Currently or formerly practicing surgeon or proceduralist, regardless of the domain

Who cannot join

  • Activity restrictions that limit one's ability to engage in online survey
  • Adults not competent to consent
  • Minors, human fetuses, neonates Prisoners/Detainees

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, California, 90005

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: Comparing the Reliability of a Web-based Intraoperative Adverse Event Assessment Tool With Standard Cognitive Grading. The Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting With Universal Standards - Calculator (ICARUS-C)

As part of the initiative known as the Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting with Universal Standards (ICARUS) project, the investigators are working to develop a set of tools to aid in improving the homogenous reporting of intraoperative adverse events (iAEs). Accordingly, the investigators developed a web-based tool, known as the ICARUS Calculator, that integrates the 5 published iAE grading systems. We plan to compare the consistency of grading responses between the ICARUS Calculator and the individual grading systems as presented in their respective publications.

The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, the investigators hope to evaluate the utility of a web-based intraoperative adverse event (iAE) grading system known as the Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting with Universal Standards (ICARUS) calculator. Second, the investigators plan to evaluate the difference in iAE grading outcomes of the ICARUS calculator compared with standard iAE grading.

Read the detailed description

Perioperative complications, especially intraoperative adverse events (iAEs), carry significant potential for long-term sequelae in a patient's postoperative course. Without consistent and homogenous reporting, these events represent a substantial gap in contemporary surgical literature and clinical practice. By definition, an iAE is any unplanned incident related to a surgical intervention occurring between skin incision and skin closure. Despite the availability of multiple intraoperative grading and classification systems, colloquiallary known as: EAUiaiC, iAE severity classification scheme, Modified Satava, EAES Grading system, and ClassIntra® (formerly CLASSIC) , the reporting of intraoperative adverse events remains exceedingly rare. Further, while most studies report postoperative adverse events, only a fraction of surgical publications report intraoperative complications as outcomes of interest.

As part of the initiative known as the Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting with Universal Standards (ICARUS) project, the investigators are working to develop a set of tools to aid in improving the homogenous reporting of iAEs. Accordingly, the investigators developed a web-based tool, known as the ICARUS Calculator, that integrates the four aforementioned iAE grading systems. The investigators plan to compare the consistency of grading responses between the ICARUS Calculator and the individual grading systems as presented in their respective publications.

Being tested
ICARUS intraoperative adverse events calculator
Keywords
ICARUS, Intraoperative Complications, ICARUS Calculator
Medical subject headings
Intraoperative Complications

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • ICARUS intraoperative adverse events calculatorOther

    The ICARUS calculator is a web-based tool that uses answers to Boolean, yes/no questions to determine the iAE grade (appendix I). The calculator providers iAE grade outputs for the 5 iAE classification systems.

    https://garnmile.com/iaecalc/

    Development of the ICARUS calculator was performed as follows: Referencing the 5 classification systems, we first assembled a list of Boolean questions based on the iAE grade descriptions. This list was distilled to the minimum number of questions necessary to represent all descriptions in the combined list of iAE grades. Next, these questions were used to independently establish the conditional logic required to determine iAE grade for each classification system. The questions and logic were translated into Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), a server-side programming language, and JavaScript, a client-side scripting language.

Study groups in NCT05270603
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
ICARUS Calculator Raters (Intervention Group)Surgeons and anesthesiologists will be asked to use the ICARUS Calculator to grade a subset of 10 clinical scenarios selected from a list of the clinical scenarios and examples from the publications of the 5iAE systems
Receives: Other: ICARUS intraoperative adverse events calculator
Cognitive Grading Raters (Control Group)Surgeons and anesthesiologists will be asked to use the ICARUS Calculator to grade a subset of 10 clinical scenarios (same as the Intervention group) selected from a list of the clinical scenarios and examples from the publications of the 5iAE systems
Receives: Other: ICARUS intraoperative adverse events calculator

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the 5 iAEs grading systems in terms of Distribution of responses by count and percent

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Distribution of responses by count and percent

    Measured: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022

  2. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the 5 iAEs grading systems in terms of Percent agreement of grade

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Percent agreement of grade

    Measured: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022

  3. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the 5 iAEs grading systems using the Cohen's Kappa

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    • Cohen's Kappa

    Measured: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022

  4. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the 5 iAEs grading systems using the Intra-class correlation (ICC) with two-way, random effects to evaluate for consistency of grades

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Intra-class correlation (ICC) with two-way, random effects to evaluate for consistency of grades

    Measured: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022

  5. Evaluate theTime to complete grading (minutes) using the 5 iAEs grading systems

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations i to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Time to complete grading (minutes)

    Measured: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022

  6. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator in term of Distribution of responses by count and percent

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Distribution of responses by count and percent

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  7. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator in terms of Percent agreement of grade

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Percent agreement of grade

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  8. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator using Cohen's Kappa

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    • Cohen's Kappa

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  9. Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator using Intra-class correlation (ICC) with two-way, random effects to evaluate for consistency of grades

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Intra-class correlation (ICC) with two-way, random effects to evaluate for consistency of grades

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  10. Evaluate Time to complete grading (minutes)using the ICARUS Calculator

    Primary data analysis will involve calculations to evaluate the consistency and inter-rater agreement for each grading system, as follows:

    -Time to complete grading (minutes)

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  11. Determination of benefit in efficiency, consistency, inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    Determination of benefit in efficiency, consistency, inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    There will be 5 output groupings involving the grading systems:

    1. ICARUS calculator vs. EAUiaiC
    2. ICARUS calculator vs. iAE severity
    3. ICARUS calculator vs. Modified Satava
    4. ICARUS calculator vs. ClassIntra
    5. ICARUS calculator vs. EAES Classification

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  12. Determination of benefit in efficiency of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    Determination of benefit in efficiency, consistency, inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    There will be 5 output groupings involving the grading systems:

    1. ICARUS calculator vs. EAUiaiC
    2. ICARUS calculator vs. iAE severity
    3. ICARUS calculator vs. Modified Satava
    4. ICARUS calculator vs. ClassIntra
    5. ICARUS calculator vs. EAES Classification

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  13. Determination of benefit in consistency of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    Determination of benefit in efficiency, consistency, inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    There will be 5 output groupings involving the grading systems:

    1. ICARUS calculator vs. EAUiaiC
    2. ICARUS calculator vs. iAE severity
    3. ICARUS calculator vs. Modified Satava
    4. ICARUS calculator vs. ClassIntra
    5. ICARUS calculator vs. EAES Classification

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  14. Determination of benefit in inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    Determination of benefit in efficiency, consistency, inter-rater reliability of the ICARUS Calculator compared to cognitively grading intraoperative adverse events

    There will be 5 output groupings involving the grading systems:

    1. ICARUS calculator vs. EAUiaiC
    2. ICARUS calculator vs. iAE severity
    3. ICARUS calculator vs. Modified Satava
    4. ICARUS calculator vs. ClassIntra
    5. ICARUS calculator vs. EAES Classification

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Evaluation of the experience using the ICARUS calculator by System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire

    Assess the physician satisfaction using a validated questionnaires System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  2. Evaluation of the experience using the ICARUS calculator by using the Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of Use (USE) questionnaire.

    Assess the physician satisfaction using a validated questionnaires: Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) and Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of Use (USE) questionnaire

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

  3. Evaluation of the experience using the ICARUS calculator by using Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS)

    Assess the physician satisfaction using a validated questionnaires: Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS)

    Measured: 03-16-2022- to 06-01-2022

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted8 Mar 2022
  2. Study start15 Mar 2022
  3. Primary completion15 Apr 2022
  4. Study completion1 Jun 2022 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
2,000 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05270603
Sponsor's protocol ID
UP-21-01010
Acronym
ICARUS-C
Status last verified
May 2022
First submitted
15 Feb 2022
Last updated
5 May 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Undecided

Publications

  • Biyani CS, Pecanka J, Roupret M, Jensen JB, Mitropoulos D. Intraoperative Adverse Incident Classification (EAUiaiC) by the European Association of Urology ad hoc Complications Guidelines Panel. Eur Urol. 2020 May;77(5):601-610. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.11.015. Epub 2019 Nov 29.

    PubMed 31787430
  • Kaafarani HM, Mavros MN, Hwabejire J, Fagenholz P, Yeh DD, Demoya M, King DR, Alam HB, Chang Y, Hutter M, Antonelli D, Gervasini A, Velmahos GC. Derivation and validation of a novel severity classification for intraoperative adverse events. J Am Coll Surg. 2014 Jun;218(6):1120-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.12.060. Epub 2014 Feb 28.

    PubMed 24702887
  • Kazaryan AM, Rosok BI, Edwin B. Morbidity assessment in surgery: refinement proposal based on a concept of perioperative adverse events. ISRN Surg. 2013 May 16;2013:625093. doi: 10.1155/2013/625093. Print 2013.

    PubMed 23762627
  • Dell-Kuster S, Gomes NV, Gawria L, Aghlmandi S, Aduse-Poku M, Bissett I, Blanc C, Brandt C, Ten Broek RB, Bruppacher HR, Clancy C, Delrio P, Espin E, Galanos-Demiris K, Gecim IE, Ghaffari S, Gie O, Goebel B, Hahnloser D, Herbst F, Ioannidis O, Joller S, Kang S, Martin R, Mayr J, Meier S, Murugesan J, Nally D, Ozcelik M, Pace U, Passeri M, Rabanser S, Ranter B, Rega D, Ridgway PF, Rosman C, Schmid R, Schumacher P, Solis-Pena A, Villarino L, Vrochides D, Engel A, O'Grady G, Loveday B, Steiner LA, Van Goor H, Bucher HC, Clavien PA, Kirchhoff P, Rosenthal R. Prospective validation of classification of intraoperative adverse events (ClassIntra): international, multicentre cohort study. BMJ. 2020 Aug 25;370:m2917. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2917.

    PubMed 32843333
  • Francis NK, Curtis NJ, Conti JA, Foster JD, Bonjer HJ, Hanna GB; EAES committees. EAES classification of intraoperative adverse events in laparoscopic surgery. Surg Endosc. 2018 Sep;32(9):3822-3829. doi: 10.1007/s00464-018-6108-1. Epub 2018 Feb 12.

    PubMed 29435754
  • Cacciamani G, Sholklapper T, Sotelo R, Desai M, Gill I. A Protocol for the Development of the Intraoperative Complications Assessment and Reporting With Universal Standards Criteria: The ICARUS Project. Int J Surg Protoc. 2021 Aug 6;25(1):160-164. doi: 10.29337/ijsp.155. eCollection 2021.

    PubMed 34430764

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Intraoperative Complications and Surgery--Complications, run by University of Southern California at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 5 May 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Evaluate the consistency and inter-rater reliability of the 5 iAEs grading systems in terms of Distribution of responses by count and percent (time frame: 03-01-2022 to 03-15-2022). The study lists 14 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05270603, which also lists 6 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

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AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 5 May 2022; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 6 Nov 2026.

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