Surgical Errors
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The care of the surgical patient is dependent upon doctors, nurses, technicians and both office and hospital staff. Like all humans, despite their best efforts, they make mistakes. Encouraging them to “try harder” simply will not work.
To reduce surgical errors we need to identify root causes and institute system-based processes to prevent them.
Studies have suggested specific areas that offer opportunities for improvement. Kim et al.[1] noted that adverse events from surgical intervention are more commonly due to preoperative and/or postoperative errors. These include delay in diagnosis and/or treatment and communication errors between the healthcare team and the patient/family or other members of the healthcare team. Process measures that can address these issues include:
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