Why the study?
What is the occurrence rate and nature of adverse events in neurosurgical interventions?
Population
643 neurosurgical interventions over 2 years in a single department
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
2 years
Authors
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Adverse events remain common in neurosurgery despite low error rates; hypothesis-generating for strategies targeting predictability over error prevention.
What is the occurrence rate and nature of adverse events in neurosurgical interventions?
Adverse events in neurosurgery are common and mostly predictable, but rarely avoidable or caused by medical errors.
Houkin et al. (2009) studied this question.
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