Our Experience in Conducting a Multicenter Cross-Specialty Retrospective Review Study: Victories and Lessons Learned

• DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1743647
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04T11:11:21Z
• Authors: Sara Saleh; Varun Kshettry; Erin McKean
• Keywords: Specialty; Modalities

We recently conducted a multicenter retrospective review of patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal approach for parasellar tumors to evaluate the impact perioperative and postoperative antibiotics on infectious outcomes. As part value-based health care initiative by North American Skull Base Society (NASBS), it provided first skull base study evaluating this topic, with over 600 patients. obstacles encountered during design, setup, execution present improvements similar studies in future. Satisfying individual institutions' requirements data transfer, timely response from participating members, use distributed collection instrument, unclear documentation antibiotic regimen and/or duration, lack standardization possible answers instruments, missing points, concerns authorship were challenges specifically attributable nature compared single-center ones. The benefits such collaborations are most pronounced quality their results highlight feasibility need efforts. Moving forward, may be helpful maximize number values recorded discrete values, hold check-in meetings among collectors, establish clear guidelines. This experience also highlights shared, deanonymized registry help future joint research endeavors.