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- Title
Overview of surgical death investigations: could a dreaded experience be turned into an opportunity?
- Authors
Ferrah, Noha; Ibrahim, Joseph E.; Ranson, David L.; Beiles, Charles Barry
- Abstract
The article offers information on the importance of surgical death investigation. Topics discussed include purpose of death investigations such as improving care and ensuring patient safety; mortality audits improve patient safety and reveal system failures; and importance of hospital internal investigations for providing concern among surgeons as they were synonymous with misconduct determinations.
- Subjects
INVESTIGATIONS; MORTALITY risk factors; PATIENT safety; SYSTEM failures; HOSPITAL inspection
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2017, Vol 87, Issue 10, p755
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ans.14161