The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications

作者：Pierre A. Clavien, Jeffrey Barkun, Michelle Oliveira, Jean‐Nicolas Vauthey, Daniel Dindo, Richard D. Schulick, Eduardo de Santibáñes, Juan Pekolj, Ksenija Slankamenac, Claudio Bassi, Rolf Graf, René Vonlanthen, Robert Padbury, John L. Cameron, Masatoshi Makuuchi · 发表于：Annals of Surgery · 年份：2009 · DOI：10.1097/sla.0b013e3181b13ca2 · 被引用次数：11589 · 研究领域：Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes、Surgical Sutures and Adhesives、Dupuytren's Contracture and Treatments

In Brief Background and Aims: The lack of consensus on how to define and grade adverse postoperative events has greatly hampered the evaluation of surgical procedures. A new classification of complications, initiated in 1992, was updated 5 years ago. It is based on the type of therapy needed to correct the complication. The principle of the classification was to be simple, reproducible, flexible, and applicable irrespective of the cultural background. The aim of the current study was to critically evaluate this classification from the perspective of its use in the literature, by assessing interobserver variability in grading complex complication scenarios and to correlate the classification grades with patients', nurses', and doctors’ perception. Material and Methods: Reports from the literature using the classification system were systematically analyzed. Next, 11 scenarios illustrating difficult cases were prepared to develop a consensus on how to rank the various complications. Third, 7 centers from different continents, having routinely used the classification, independently assessed the 11 scenarios. An agreement analysis was performed to test the accuracy and reliability of the classification. Finally, the perception of the severity was tested in patients, nurses, and physicians by presenting 30 scenarios, each illustrating a specific grade of complication. Results: We noted a dramatic increase in the use of the classification in many fields of surgery. About half of th...