Lothian Surgical Audit: a 15-year experience of improvement in surgical practice through regional computerised audit

Aitken, R J; Nixon, S. J.; Ruckley, C. V.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(97)01021-0

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“…The Lothian Surgical Audit is a database of prospectively collected information on all general surgical procedures in the Lothian geographical area 6 . In addition to demographic details, the database records clinical pathology findings and procedure codes entered by the operating surgeon at the time of operation.…”

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Open cholecystectomy in the laparoscopic era

Jenkins

Paterson

Parks

et al. 2007

British Journal of Surgery

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Open cholecystectomy in the laparoscopic era

Jenkins

Paterson

Parks

et al. 2007

British Journal of Surgery

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“…complications). In 1997, Aitken and co-workers 361 reviewed the Lothian Surgical Audit and concluded that it had changed practice in respect of the establishment of specialist units, improved results after bowel surgery and led to the demise of outmoded techniques. They believed that this success derived from the facts that the audit was driven by surgeons, could be flexibly used in everyday practice and had inspired confidence in participating surgeons.…”

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“…416 Some UK surgical audits were developed because of a belief that the national generic systems were not fit for their purpose because of inaccuracies, inadequate operation codes and lateness of production. 351,358 The SASM attributes its success to the special operation coding system that it has devised, 361 while the Scottish Arthroplasty Register has judged that it is easier, and is sufficient, for it to use the national system.…”

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The measurement and monitoring of surgical adverse events

Bruce

Russell

Mollison

et al. 2001

Health Technol Assess

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“…All patients who presented with acute biliary pancreatitis from January 2002 to September 2004 were identified from a prospectively collected Lothian Surgical Audit (LSA) database [12] and reviewed retrospectively. Patients with chronic pancreatitis were excluded as were tertiary referrals who had been referred beyond the first week of presentation with complications of severe acute pancreatitis.…”

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confidence: 99%