Adverse Events and Patient Safety in the Operating Theatre: Perspectives of 549 Surgeons
- 1 June 2010
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Surgeons of England in Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Vol. 92 (6), 1-4
- https://doi.org/10.1308/147363510x507972
Abstract
The Chief Medical Officer's recent report, 'Making surgery safer', was a response to widespread concern about patient safety in the operating theatre. Annually there are an estimated 129,416 'untoward events' in the UK. These range from 'near misses' (NM), in which a patient is 'nearly harmed', to an 'adverse event' (AE), usually defined as 'an unintended injury or complication, including death'.Keywords
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