Is failure to rescue an appropriate quality indicator in a pancreatic surgery unit?

Key Points

• Failure to rescue serves as a crucial quality indicator for evaluating surgical outcomes in a pancreatic surgery unit.
• A review of cases showed that proper interventions could significantly improve rescue rates in high-risk patients following complications.
• Observational analysis examined data from a pancreatic surgery unit to assess the impact of failure to rescue on patient outcomes.
• Findings highlight the importance of adopting failure to rescue as a benchmark for enhancing quality indicators in surgical care.