Tag: SurgicalPerformance

Blissfully unaware?

Last week I attended a marvellous presentation by Professor Gerald Hickson from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. In brief, he talked about us doctors being accountable for our outcomes and actions.

Tagged SurgicalPerformance, complaints, Complications; Posted 11 years ago

Registries don’t work for doctors

In order to measure and improve the quality of health care, professional societies and Colleges (on behalf of government organisations) feel a strong need to collect data.

Tagged registry, SurgicalPerformance, Audit, quality; Posted 11 years ago

The top 5 failures to disclose risk at informed consent

In most countries, doctors have a duty to explain the possibility of surgical risks and possible complications before surgery to patients.

Tagged Audit, Checklist, complaints, Patient experience, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 12 years ago

Few doctors account for the majority of patient complaints

To many doctors, to receive a notice of a patient complaint seems random.

Tagged Audit, Complications, complaints, Patient experience, RANZCOG, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 12 years ago

Surgical Checklists

Surgical Checklists demonstrated a significant reduction in postoperative morbidity and mortality in more than one very large study.

Tagged Checklist, Audit, SurgicalPerformance, Complications; Posted 12 years ago

RANZCOG complications survey

I am an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in a small country town in NSW.

Tagged Audit, SurgicalPerformance, RANZCOG, Complications; Comments 5 ; Posted 12 years ago by Elizabeth Varughese

FREE SurgicalPerformance Audit in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

If you think about it for a second it is pretty clear: You cannot improve outcomes that you don’t measure.I got in contact with the idea of “audit” when I...

Tagged Audit, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 12 years ago

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