Table 1Inclusion criteria for review question 27: frequency of postoperative monitoring

ParameterInclusion criteria
Population

People who have undergone surgical repair of an AAA

Stratified by: age, sex, comorbidities, compliance with surveillance

InterventionsVarying intervals of monitoring/surveillance and defined protocols (also accounting for imaging technique and time since surgery)
ComparatorsEach other
Outcomes

AAA rupture

Further AAA growth/expansion

Mortality; survival

Need for additional intervention, including both emergency and elective surgical intervention

Compliance

Quality of life

Adverse effects, including incidence of cancer, renal complications (contrast-induced nephrotoxicity)

Lower limb, visceral and renal ischaemia

Resource use and cost

From: Postoperative surveillance after surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

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Postoperative surveillance after surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: Abdominal aortic aneurysm: diagnosis and management: Evidence review V.
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