Stay quality focused and speed efficient at the same time.
The primary outcomes measures were pain, edema and adverse events; the secondary outcomes were knee function, analgesic medication use, range of motion, blood loss, hospital stay, quality of life and patient satisfaction.
Outcomes were average time to decannulation, length of stay, quality of care, and adverse events.
Secondary outcome measures are length of hospital stay, quality and completeness of information transfer and patient satisfaction with the instruments.
The primary outcomes will be patient length of stay, quality of life (EuroQol questionnaire), the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), and health utilization and cost data.
The TENSION trial will also investigate whether pancreatic fistula, exocrine or endocrine pancreatic insufficiency, length of ICU and hospital stay, quality of life and costs are reduced by the endoscopic step-up approach.
For continuous data (e.g., costs, length of stay, quality of life), we used the mean difference (MD) when trials measured outcomes in the same way, and we used the standardized mean difference (SMD or Hedges' adjusted g) when trials used different methods to measure the same outcomes (38).
