BACKGROUND: The SAfety and FEasibility of standard EVAR outside the instruction for use (SAFE-EVAR) Study was designed to define the attitude of Italian vascular surgeons towards the use of standard endovascular repair (EVAR) for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) outside the instruction for use (IFU) through a Delphi consensus endorsed by the Italian Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Societa Italiana di Chirurgia Vascolare ed Endovascolare - SICVE). METHODS: A questionnaire consisting of 26 statements was developed, validated by an 18 -member Advisory Board, and then sent to 600 Italian vascular surgeons. The Delphi process was structured in three subsequent rounds which took place between April and June 2023. In the first two rounds, respondents could indicate one of the following five degrees of agreement: 1) strongly agree; 2) partially agree; 3) neither agree nor disagree; 4) partially disagree; 5) strongly disagree; while in the third round only three different choices were proposed: 1) agree; 2) neither agree nor disagree; 3) disagree. We considered the consensus reached when >70% of respondents agreed on one of the options. After the conclusion of each round, a report describing the percentage distribution of the answers was sent to all the participants. RESULTS: Two -hundred -forty-four (40.6%) Italian Vascular Surgeons agreed to participate the first round of the Delphi Consensus; the second and the third rounds of the Delphi collected 230 responders (94.3% of the first -round responders). Four statements (15.4%) reached a consensus in the first rounds. Among the 22 remaining statements, one more consensus (3.8%) was achieved in the second round. Finally, seven more statements (26.9%) reached a consensus in the simplified last round. Globally, a consensus was reached for almost half of the proposed statements (46.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The relatively low consensus rate obtained in this Delphi seems to confirm the discrepancy between Guideline recommendations and daily clinical practice. The data collected could represent the source for a possible guidelines' revision and the proposal of specific Good Practice Points in all those aspects with only little evidence available.

Insight from an italian Delphi consensus on EVAR feasibility outside the instruction for use: the SAFE EVAR study / Sirignano, Pasqualino; Piffaretti, Gabriele; Ceruti, Silvia; Orso, Massimiliano; Picozzi, Mario; Ricci, Giovanna; Sirignano, Ascanio; Taurino, Maurizio; SAFE EVAR, Collaborators; Martelli, Eugenio; Martinelli, Ombretta. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. - ISSN 1827-191X. - 65:3(2024), pp. 273-279. [10.23736/s0021-9509.23.12906-5]

Insight from an italian Delphi consensus on EVAR feasibility outside the instruction for use: the SAFE EVAR study

SIRIGNANO, Pasqualino
;
TAURINO, Maurizio;MARTELLI, Eugenio
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
MARTINELLI, Ombretta
Membro del Collaboration Group
2024

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The SAfety and FEasibility of standard EVAR outside the instruction for use (SAFE-EVAR) Study was designed to define the attitude of Italian vascular surgeons towards the use of standard endovascular repair (EVAR) for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) outside the instruction for use (IFU) through a Delphi consensus endorsed by the Italian Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Societa Italiana di Chirurgia Vascolare ed Endovascolare - SICVE). METHODS: A questionnaire consisting of 26 statements was developed, validated by an 18 -member Advisory Board, and then sent to 600 Italian vascular surgeons. The Delphi process was structured in three subsequent rounds which took place between April and June 2023. In the first two rounds, respondents could indicate one of the following five degrees of agreement: 1) strongly agree; 2) partially agree; 3) neither agree nor disagree; 4) partially disagree; 5) strongly disagree; while in the third round only three different choices were proposed: 1) agree; 2) neither agree nor disagree; 3) disagree. We considered the consensus reached when >70% of respondents agreed on one of the options. After the conclusion of each round, a report describing the percentage distribution of the answers was sent to all the participants. RESULTS: Two -hundred -forty-four (40.6%) Italian Vascular Surgeons agreed to participate the first round of the Delphi Consensus; the second and the third rounds of the Delphi collected 230 responders (94.3% of the first -round responders). Four statements (15.4%) reached a consensus in the first rounds. Among the 22 remaining statements, one more consensus (3.8%) was achieved in the second round. Finally, seven more statements (26.9%) reached a consensus in the simplified last round. Globally, a consensus was reached for almost half of the proposed statements (46.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The relatively low consensus rate obtained in this Delphi seems to confirm the discrepancy between Guideline recommendations and daily clinical practice. The data collected could represent the source for a possible guidelines' revision and the proposal of specific Good Practice Points in all those aspects with only little evidence available.
2024
abdominal aortic aneurysm; endovascular aneurysm repair; informed consent; shared decision making; consensus; delphi technique
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Insight from an italian Delphi consensus on EVAR feasibility outside the instruction for use: the SAFE EVAR study / Sirignano, Pasqualino; Piffaretti, Gabriele; Ceruti, Silvia; Orso, Massimiliano; Picozzi, Mario; Ricci, Giovanna; Sirignano, Ascanio; Taurino, Maurizio; SAFE EVAR, Collaborators; Martelli, Eugenio; Martinelli, Ombretta. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. - ISSN 1827-191X. - 65:3(2024), pp. 273-279. [10.23736/s0021-9509.23.12906-5]
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