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Research type:

Primary Research (e.g. trial) 

Title (lead author) etc:

Randomised controlled trial and parallel economic evaluation of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR)  (Peek) 73 pages, Volume 14, number 35

DOI

10.3310/hta14350
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Headline:

Study found that transferring adult patients with severe but potentially reversible respiratory failure to a single specialist treatment centre for consideration of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation significantly increased survival without severe disability 

This report should be referenced as follows:

Peek G, Elbourne D, Mugford M, Tiruvoipati R, Wilson A, et al. Randomised controlled trial and parallel economic evaluation of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR). Health Technol Assess 2010;14(35).

Project ref:

99/01/01 

Original project title:

Conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR) 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Diana Elbourne, Professor of Health Care Evaluation, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Project Website

http://www.cesar-trial.org 

Start Date:

July 2000  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

July 2010

Cost:

£1,424,795 

MeSH* index primary terms:

EXTRACORPOREAL-MEMBRANE-OXYGENATION (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

HUMAN; ADULT; SURVIVAL-RATE; MULTICENTER-STUDY; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

ISRCTN* number:

ISRCTN 47279827 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) 
URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website:
http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN47279827 

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484070433 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

Project protocol (pdf format, 345 kbytes)

Printed copies of this title despatched:

106 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

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