Disclosure and Reporting of Surgical Complications: A Double-Edged Sword?

Beyond a doubt, the menace of underreporting infor-mation related to adverse events in surgery, including “near misses” (ie, an error that was realized in time to be aborted) and “no harm” events (ie, an error that occurred but did not lead to patient harm), bears the inherent risk of a recurrence of the said adverse event in a different patient.