Surgery

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1. Improving surgical quality in low-income and middle-income countries: why do some health facilities perform better than others? (5 February 2021)

   • Surgery - General
   • Quality improvement
   • (and 8 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Quality improvement
     • Low income countries
     • Middle income countries
     • Developing countries
     • Research
     • Leadership
     • Goal setting
     • Organisational culture
     • Teamwork

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 March, 2021

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   • 8 March, 2021

2. Necessary duration of follow-up to assess complications of mesh in hernia surgery: a time-lapse study based on 460 explants (22 September 2020)

   • Surgery - General
   • Medical device
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Medical device
     • Patient harmed
     • Research

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 February, 2021

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   • 17 February, 2021

3. Delivering patient-centred care: A perioperative care Green Paper

   • Pre-op period
   • Post-op period
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Pre-op period
     • Post-op period
     • Policies
     • Innovation
     • Transformation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February, 2021

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   • 3 February, 2021

4. World Alliance for Patient Safety. The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge: Safe surgery saves lives

   • Surgery - General

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January, 2021

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   • 1,130 views
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   • 16 January, 2021

5. Smoking and surgery: advice for patients (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2023)

   • Surgery - General
   • Substance / Drug abuse
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Substance / Drug abuse
     • Post-op period
     • Recovery
     • Patient
     • Surgeon
     • Consultation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 January, 2021

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   • 12 January, 2021

6. Surgeons' News (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)

   • Surgery - General
   • Surgery - Urology
   • (and 9 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Surgery - Urology
     • Surgery - Vascular
     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
     • Surgery - ENT
     • Surgery - Neurosurgery
     • Surgery - Oral and maxillofacial
     • Surgery - Paediatric
     • Surgery - Cardiothoracic
     • Surgery - Ear nose & throat
     • Surgeon

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 January, 2021

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   • 12 January, 2021

7. ECRI: Wrong-site surgery (14 December 2020)

   • Surgery - General
   • Risk management
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Risk management
     • protocols and procedures
     • Patient death
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 January, 2021

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   • 11 January, 2021

8. Mölnlycke: SSI Risk Reduction Partnership

   • Surgery - General
   • Healthcare associated infection
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Patient
     • protocols and procedures

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 January, 2021

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   • 10 January, 2021

9. WHO: Anaesthesia safety checklist

   • Anaesthesia
   • Checklists
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Anaesthesia
     • Checklists
     • Anaesthetist

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 December, 2020

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   • 1,631 views
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   • 22 December, 2020

10. Wrong-site surgery in Pennsylvania during 2015–2019: A study of variables associated with 368 events from 178 facilities (December 2020)

    • Surgery - General
    • Human error
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Human error
      • protocols and procedures
      • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 December, 2020

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    • 18 December, 2020

11. NELA – continuing to help patients and healthcare professionals (26 November 2020)

    • Audit
    • Healthcare
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Audit
      • Healthcare
      • Medicine - Geriatric
      • Emergency medicine
      • Surgeon
      • Surgery - General

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 December, 2020

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    • 2,125 views
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    • 4 December, 2020

12. Surgical Outcome Risk Tool v2 (SORT)

    • Surgery - General
    • Surgeon
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Surgeon
      • Decision making
      • Patient
      • Risk assessment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 December, 2020

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    • 1 December, 2020

13. Patient Safety Authority: Surgical fires

    • Surgery - General
    • Health hazards
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Health hazards
      • Risk management
      • Operating theatre / recovery
      • Anaesthesia

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 November, 2020

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    • 1,330 views
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    • 17 November, 2020

14. Getting It Right in orthopaedics: reflecting on success and reinforcing improvement (February 2020)

    • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 6 November, 2020

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    • 928 views
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    • 6 November, 2020

15. Effect of monitoring surgical outcomes using control charts to reduce major adverse events in patients: cluster randomised trial (4 November 2020)

    • Surgery - General
    • Quality improvement
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Quality improvement
      • Staff engagement
      • Indicators
      • RCT

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 November, 2020

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    • 1,443 views
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    • 5 November, 2020

16. The WHO surgical safety checklist: survey of patients’ views (18 July 2014)

    • Checklists
    • Surgery - General
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Checklists
      • Surgery - General
      • Research
      • Patient

    By Patient Safety Learning, 28 October, 2020

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    • 875 views
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    • 28 October, 2020

17. Ten years of the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology: An expert opinion on peri-operative safety aspects

    • Anaesthesia
    • Surgery - General
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Anaesthesia
      • Surgery - General
      • Safety assessment

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 26 October, 2020

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    • 26 October, 2020

18. Bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The United States experience (10 April 2014)

    • Medicine - Hepatology
    • Surgery - General
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Medicine - Hepatology
      • Surgery - General
      • Research
      • USA

    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 October, 2020

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    • 1,339 views
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    • 21 October, 2020

19. ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO Deep Dive: Strategies for surgical patient safety

    • Surgery - General
    • Surgeon
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Surgeon
      • Patient harmed
      • Operating theatre / recovery
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • High risk groups

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 October, 2020

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    • 1,559 views
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    • 15 October, 2020

20. Centre for Perioperative Care. Multidisciplinary working in perioperative care – Rapid Research Review (June 2020)

    • Surgery - General
    • Operating theatre / recovery
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Surgery - General
      • Operating theatre / recovery
      • Care goals
      • Pre-op period
      • Post-op period
      • Post-discharge support
      • Recovery

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 October, 2020

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    • 2 October, 2020

21. Perioperative care – The ‘Holy Grail of healthcare’

    • Pre-op period
    • Post-op period
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Pre-op period
      • Post-op period
      • Recovery
      • Surgery - General

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 October, 2020

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    • 1 October, 2020

22. Centre for Perioperative Care: Impact of perioperative care on healthcare resource use. Rapid research review (June 2020)

    • Pre-op period
    • Post-op period
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Pre-op period
      • Post-op period
      • Recovery
      • Surgery - General
      • Care plan

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 September, 2020

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    • 16 September, 2020

23. Optimising shared decision-making for high-risk major surgery (OSIRIS research programme)

    • Risk assessment
    • High risk groups
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Risk assessment
      • High risk groups
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Decision making
      • Surgery - General
      • Patient engagement

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 9 September, 2020

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    • 9 September, 2020

24. We asked the experts: Delivering resilient surgical care in a crisis—Five survival strategies for front-line surgeons (9 August 2020)

    • Surgeon
    • Emergency medicine
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Surgeon
      • Emergency medicine
      • Pandemic
      • Leadership
      • Communication

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 September, 2020

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    • 7 September, 2020

25. Patient Safety Authority: Wrong-site surgery

    • Human error
    • Surgery - General
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Human error
      • Surgery - General
      • Never event

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 July, 2020

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    • 927 views
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    • 1 July, 2020