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24.08.2016 | Editorials
Can we create a Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group? We review the first five years and glimpse into the future
Erschienen in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Ausgabe 11/2016
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In 2010, we posed the following question: Can we develop a Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group (PACT) to investigate clinical problems in perioperative medicine? 1 The primary purpose for this initiative was to enable investigators to develop research programs that would both attract peer-reviewed funding for local and nationally funded clinical trials supported by the PACT and also lead to publication of the results in high-impact journals. Several goals were established (Table) aimed at realizing our overarching objective, namely, to conduct practice-changing research to improve the outcome of patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia throughout the perioperative period. Herein, we report the progress of this initiative to date and provide insight into some of the challenges for the future.
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Goals for the Canadian Perioperative Anesthesiology Clinical Trials Initiative
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To identify and investigate clinically relevant questions in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine
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To build research programs to answer these research questions
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To structure and conduct quality research with sound methodology
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To facilitate collaboration amongst various investigators across Canada so as to conduct multicentre research
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To acquire peer-reviewed funding from granting agencies
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To execute and publish the results of their research in high-impact peer-reviewed journals
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