Standardizing The Intraoperative Adverse Events Assessment to Create a Positive Culture of Reporting Errors in Surgery and Anesthesiology

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, USC Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
² Clinic of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Urology, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
⁵ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust, Yeovil, UK.
⁶ Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Giovanni Enrico Cacciamani et al. Ann Surg. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 1;276(2):e75-e76.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005464. Epub 2022 Jun 28.

¹ Department of Urology, USC Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
² Clinic of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Urology, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
⁵ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust, Yeovil, UK.
⁶ Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author reports no conflicts of interest.

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