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We at TOFS UK read with interest the journal’s recent paper ‘Defining Treatment Success in Children with Surgical Conditions’ and your editorial ‘Defining Surgical Success’.1 2
We welcome the development of the Children’s Surgery Outcome Reporting (CSOR) Treatment Success Score (TSS). As a patient representative organisation for those born with oesophageal atresia (OA) and their families, we are keen to see a reduction in unwarranted variation in outcomes following surgery. We also want specialised surgical centres to collaborate so that where hospitals are performing better, the management strategies used in that hospital can be shared across the UK.
While the editorial has a slightly different title to the original article such that, …
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Collaborators Julia Faulkner, Department of Dietetics, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Yeovil, UK
Contributors This was a joint letter with the content contributed to by the trustees of TOFS charity, particularly Julia Faulkner. I am the guarantor.
Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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