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Effectiveness of routine reporting to identify minor and serious adverse outcomes in surgical patients

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Marang-van de Mheen, P J·2005·Quality and Safety in Health Care

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of routine reporting to identify surgical adverse outcomes in comparison with retrospective medical record review. DESIGN: Independent assessment of two methods applied to one sample. Surgeons and surgical residents routinely reported all adverse outcomes for patients in their care during admission. A trained research assistant, blinded to the surgeons' reporting data, retrospectively reviewed the medical records of selected patients and registered all adverse outcomes identified from paper or electronic patient records. SETTING: Dutch university hospital. STUDY SAMPLE: A 5% sample of patients (N = 150) discharged in 2002 was taken; oversampling of patients undergoing reoperations, sick patients (ASA >or=3), and those undergoing technically complex surgery was done to increase the yield of adverse outcomes. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The number of adverse outcomes identified by each method was compared with the total number identified by either method. This was done both for all adverse outcomes and for serious adverse outcomes. RESULTS: Routine reporting identified fewer adverse outcomes than medical record review (62.5% v 78.2%). Complete agreement was achieved in only 40.7% of adverse outcomes. Routine reporting identified slightly more serious adverse outcomes (84.8% v 79.5% of the total), but this difference was not statistically significant. Extrapolating these results to the total number of admissions in 2002, routine reporting underestimated the annual adverse outcome incidence by 1.8% (increasing from 14.5% to 16.3%) and the incidence of serious adverse outcomes by 0.3% (increasing from 6.9% to 7.2%). CONCLUSIONS: Neither method identified all adverse outcomes. Routine reporting underestimated the incidence of minor events but was as accurate as record review in identifying serious adverse outcomes.

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  1. [8]8. Kievit J, Jeekel J, Sanders FBM. Adverse outcome registration and quality improvement (in Dutch). Med Contact 1999;54:1363-5.

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Authors
Marang-van de Mheen, P. J.
Venue
Quality and Safety in Health Care
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2005-10-01
Volume
14
Issue
5
Pages
378-382
ISSN
  • 1475-3898 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-3901
OpenAlex
W2123150039
Cited by
46
References
18
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • BMJ Quality & Safety (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
Keywords
adverse surgical outcomes, serious adverse events, outcome ascertainment, underreporting, surgical quality
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Female, Humans, Male, Medical Audit, Medical Records, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Reoperation, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Risk Management, Surgery Department, Hospital, Surgical Procedures, Operative, Treatment Outcome, Outcome Assessment, Health Care

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