Children's Acute Surgical Abdomen Programme: CASAP v1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Children's Acute Surgical Abdomen Programme: CASAP
IRAS ID
234524
Contact name
S. Ramani Moonesinghe
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2018/08/38, UCL Data Protection Registration Number
Duration of Study in the UK
10 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
CASAP will review the type and quality of care provided to children undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in the United Kingdom. In doing so it will enable a comparison of the standard of care provided to be made against evidence-based recommendations and will identify variations in care between individual hospitals. Additional aims of this study include establishing the risk factors associated with postoperative complications in children having unplanned abdominal surgery.
We will collect data on all patients (aged 1 - 16 years) undergoing unplanned abdominal surgery in the UK during the study period. We will measure complications using an objective measurement system. We will also establish the longer term outcomes in these children by linking the data we collect with national databases held by the NHS Digital (Hospital Episode Statistics and the Office of National Statistics Mortality register). In carrying out this study we shall determine the acceptability to parents and children of having such data collected routinely with the aim to subsequently establish a longer-term national research programme aimed at improving the care in this patient group.
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/LO/0267
Date of REC Opinion
12 Jun 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion