Outcomes Research Consortium
The Outcomes Research Consortium (stylized as OUTCOMES RESEARCH) is an international clinical research group that focuses on the perioperative, perioperative period (during and after surgery), along with Intensive care medicine, critical care and pain management. The Consortium's aim is to improve the quality of care for surgical, critical care, and chronic pain patients and to "Provide the evidence for evidence-based practice." Members of the Consortium are especially interested in testing simple, low-risk, and inexpensive treatments that have the potential to markedly improve patients' surgical experiences. The 25-year anniversary of the Consortium and its accomplishments were celebrated in an editorial in Anesthesiology (journal), Anesthesiology. The editorial starts: History The Outcomes Research Group was formed in 1990 at the University of California San Francisco, and thus celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015. The Consortium now includes about 130 university-based ...
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