Airway Terminology and Outcome Measures ATOM

The Airway Terminology and Outcome Measures project is a Difficult Airway Society endorsed endeavour with the specific aim to identify a core outcome set for airway management research and unify terminology used in routine airway management.

Our goal is to achieve multi-stakeholder agreement at the international level using a modified Delphi process. The first two stages of ATOM will be focused on defining a core outcome set.

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Our team

The ATOM Steering Committee is composed of a diverse group of experts in airway management, lay representatives and operational managers, with decades of experience in delivering research outputs.

Prof Kariem El-Boghdadly

Chief Investigator

Dr Jan Hansel

Principal Investigator

Prof Tim Cook

Steering Committee Member

Dr Alexander Fuchs

Steering Committee Member

Kate Rivett

Lay Member

Prof Robert Greif

Steering Committee Member

Gill Radcliffe

Steering Committee Operational Manager

How are core outcome sets usually developed?

  • Identification of existing potential outcomes
  • Development of a survey
  • Prioritisation of outcomes
  • Identification of outcome measures (instruments)
  • Final consensus meeting

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