Abstract:Successful surgery combines quality (achievement of a positive outcome) with safety (avoidance of a negative outcome). Outcome assessment serves the purpose of quality improvement in health care by establishing performance indicators and allowing the identification of performance gaps. Novel surgical quality metric tools (benchmark cutoffs and textbook outcomes) provide procedure-specific ideal surgical outcomes in a subgroup of well-defined low-risk patients, with the aim of setting realistic and best achieva… Show more
“…Kalt et al 14 provide the readers with an overview of classifications of adverse events in the intra- and postoperative management of adult surgical patients, giving additional insight into the digitalization of documentation.…”
“…Kalt et al 14 provide the readers with an overview of classifications of adverse events in the intra- and postoperative management of adult surgical patients, giving additional insight into the digitalization of documentation.…”
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