
19/09/2025
📣New article alert: AI-supported perioperative care and surgery for colorectal cancer!
We are happy to announce that our experiences at Center For Surgical Science and Kirurgisk Afdeling Sjællands Universitetshospital Køge on implementing personalized perioperative care supported by AI, are now available online, and grateful that Nature Medicine have chosen to publish it as an a-z article for developing, testing and implementing a digital solution for clinical use.
The article tells a story from identifying a clinical need, building a digital solution, implementing the tool with bundle-care clinically, and evaluating the health economic outcomes.
The story starts with how researchers at Center for Surgical Science (CSS), together with the colorectal surgical team needed to identify high risk patients, how they co-designed, -developed, and validated a decision support tool based on Danish Registry data, using the OHDSI tool stack, validation on the tool on patients from the clinic, and how the relative incidence of adverse postoperative events changed after implementing the tool together with care-bundles - And finally how changing healthcare utilization might be changed by a new treatment paradigm of using AI based tools to personalize perioperative care.
A few highlights from the article:
⭐ The registry-based model performed well and generalized to the real-world setting
🏥 34-48% relative fewer adverse postoperative outcomes were observed after implementation of personalized preoperative care
💰 Expected reduced healthcare utilization valued at ~2800 USD per patient due to less postoperative morbidity
We are very excited about the project's findings as they already help clinicians improve care for patients with colorectal cancer, but we also hope our study can serve as a road map between researchers and clinicians within other disease and treatment areas to guide the development and deployment of new tools.
The study is a true team effort between all our colleagues and collaborators at the Surgical Department, PROgrez, Department of Anesthesiology, geriatric department, DaCHE - Dansk Center for Sundhedsøkonomi / Danish Centre for Health Economics and CSS, guided by the leadership of Ismail Gogenur 🤗
The main authors are our two amazing doctors Ilze Ose and Andreas Weinberger Rosen, but we would also like to say thank you for the contribution to our own Mikail, Philip, Rasmus V & Rasmus B.
Thanks to the clinicians at the Surgical Department and of all the guidance from Trine Kjær, Søren Thorgaard Skou, Lars Peter and a special thanks to the editors, technical team and reviewers at Nature Medicine.
Thanks to Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Fonden, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Danish Agency for Digital Government and InteregØKS, for the invaluable support.
Read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03942-x