Failure-to-Rescue Surgical Studies: A Systematic Review of 38 Publications from 2019-2024

Claudia Varrella's systematic review analyzes 38 clinical studies on failure-to-rescue (FTR) in surgical practice published between 2019 and 2024. The review, last updated in May 2026, examines how FTR is used as a quality metric, its operationalization, and the geographic and subspecialty distribution of the evidence base. The dataset is a 906.1 KB DOCX file containing the review's supplementary materials.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in the operationalization of failure-to-rescue as a structure, process, or outcome metric based on the Donabedian framework described.
• Studying geographic and subspecialty concentration in surgical research based on the reported dominance of high-income countries and abdominal surgery studies.
• Examining bibliometric impact patterns in a focused clinical field based on the reported citation counts and journal impact factors.
• Identifying gaps in the clinical evidence base for a critical safety metric based on the review's conclusions about limited volume and scope.

Strengths

• Based on a systematic review of 322 screened articles following PRISMA guidelines.
• Includes bibliometric analysis with specific metrics like a mean of 18.4 Scopus citations per study.
• Provides temporal analysis covering publications from 2019 to 2024.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single 906.1 KB DOCX file, indicating a limited scope of raw data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and subspecialty bias inherent to the reviewed literature.

Provenance

Source

Claudia Varrella via figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic literature review conducted following PRISMA guidelines.

Time Range

Studies published between 2019 and 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 05:38:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Studies were predominantly from the USA (47.4%) and Europe (42.1%).