Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study: a protocol for an international multicentre prospective cohort study of cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to major non-cardiac surgery.

Duminda Nalaka WijeysunderaRupert M PearseMark A ShulmanTom E F AbbottElizabeth TorresBernard L CroalJohn T GrantonKevin E ThorpeMichael P W GrocottCatherine FarringtonPaul S MylesBrian H Cuthbertsonnull null

Published in: BMJ open (2016)

The METS Study has received research ethics board approval at all sites. Participant recruitment began in March 2013, and 1-year follow-up is expected to finish in 2016. Publication of the results of the METS Study is anticipated to occur in 2017.

Keyphrases

cardiac surgery
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