Outcome monitoring after cardiac surgery

Conditions

Cardiac surgery Surgery

Rachel Maishman, Katherine Joyce, Terrie Walker-Smith, Helena Smart, Lucy Culliford

F1000Research2025-10-31

10.12688/f1000research.163134.1

Cohort profile: Outcome Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery (OMACS) – a prospective UK cohort study of cardiac surgery patients at the Bristol Heart Institute

Katherine Joyce, Rachel Maishman, Terrie Walker-Smith, Helena J.M. Smartt, Emma Hopkins et al. (11 authors)

BMJ Open2025-02-011 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091518

Outcome Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery (OMACS): a single-centre prospective cohort study of cardiac surgery patients

Terrie Walker-Smith, Katherine Joyce, Rachel Maishman, Helena J.M. Smartt, Emma Hopkins et al. (10 authors)

BMJ Open2022-12-014 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063268

The OMACS-PIL study: a randomised controlled trial within the OMACS observational study.

Culliford L, Brierley R, Clout M, Evans R, Maishman R, Phillips D, Tabusa H, Reeves B, Rogers CA.

2019-12-272 citations

10.1186/s13063-019-3958-3

Interventions

Current interventions as of 06/02/2019: The patient information leaflets (PILs) have the same text, and the text varies from 2 formats used as standard in our institution: A4 sheet with no colour and

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients, aged 18 years or above, who have had cardiac surgery at the Bristol Heart Institute.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Prisoners 2. Patients unable to give consent through mental incapacity 3. Patients whose main residence is outside the UK

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Primary outcome for the Outcome Monitoring 1. MACE 2. Mortality data from the Personal Demographics Service. Primary outcomes for the nested RCT: Participant uptake in the study for each format of the information leaflet	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. NHS resource use 2. Quality of life instruments - Coronary Revascularisation Outcome Questionnaire (CROQ) and/or short-form-12 (SF12) questionnaire 3. International normalised ratio (INR) values e.g. in participants having valve surgery or with persistent post-operative atrial fibrillation.	—

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed