Old New (2011) Preventable Unanticipated mortality with opportunity for improvement Non-Preventable Mortality without opportunity for improvement Possibly Preventable Anticipated mortality with opportunity for improvement The Institute of Medicine in 1999…

Fig. 31.1 Operating room efficiencies study. These are the results of our local operating room efficiency study. The x axis is the issues studied. The y axis is the frequency…

Organisation Guideline American Medical Association When “a patient suffers significant medical complications that may have resulted from the doctor’s mistake . . . the doctor is ethically required to inform…

Surgical “never-events” 1. Surgery performed on the wrong body part. 2. Surgery performed on the wrong patient. 3. Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient. 4. Unintended retention of a…

Fig. 22.1 Article accesses to the open-access journal Patient Safety in Surgery. The graph shows the growing number of accesses to articles published from the time of the journal’s launch…

SCIP-Inf-1 Prophylactic antibiotic received within 1 h prior to surgical incision SCIP-Inf-2 Prophylactic antibiotic selection for surgical patients SCIP-Inf-3 Prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 h after surgery end time SCIP-Inf-4…

Some templates generate long lists of historical or physical findings that may have no conceivable relevance to a case, and just clutter the record with irrelevant nonsense (Box 19.8). A…

(1) Department of Orthopaedic Trauma, University Hospital Aachen, 30 Pauwels street, Aachen, 52074, Germany   KeywordsHealthcareProfessionalismAccountabilityOrthopedic surgeryEthics in health care Pitfalls and Pearls Physicians are required to be highly professional,…