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Perioperative adverse events occur in about 30% of hospital admissions, with surgical in-hospital mortality in Europe averaging 4%, highlighting the need for open communication and reporting.
Openly communicating and reporting patient harm are key to learning and improving outcomes in perioperative healthcare.
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May warrant enhanced perioperative reporting systems; leaves open whether they reduce adverse events or mortality.
Perioperative patient harm is frequent: Adverse events, more than half of them preventable, occur in about 30% of hospital admissions. Surgical in-hospital mortality in Europe is currently as high as 4% on average. Openly communicating as well as reporting patient harm are key to learning within institutions and improving patient outcomes, but are hindered by strong barriers in the tense working environment of perioperative healthcare. Some interventions to overcome such barriers and to improve patient outcomes are ready for adoption into routine practice. Before implementing safety interventions, specific institutional conditions should be considered to ensure local validity. Sustained improvements require local measurement and long-term monitoring of effects.
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Wacker et al. (2016) conducted a review in Perioperative patient harm. Perioperative adverse events occur in about 30% of hospital admissions, with surgical in-hospital mortality in Europe averaging 4%, highlighting the need for open communication and reporting.
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