The Department of Outcomes Research is the administrative center for the international Outcomes Research Consortium, a group of more than 100 clinical investigators. In general outcomes research seeks to link the care people get to the outcomes they experience. Our specific interest is to evaluate inexpensive, low-risk interventions that are easy to implement yet likely to markedly improve outcome. These reviews summarize treatments we’ve developed and how they fit into existing knowledge.

Target Audience

Physicians and nurses caring for
perioperative and critical-care patients.

1. Review the effects of regional and general anesthesia on thermoregulatory control.
2. Discuss heat balance and how surgical patients become hypothermic.
3. Review the consequences of hypothermia and how to maintain normothermia
4. Identify methods of reducing the risk of surgical infection.