What is Surgical errors/complications?
What is Surgical errors/complications?
- Surgical errors/complications: Any error or complication that arises from surgery.
- Surgical errors/complications: pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure; may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
Source - Diseases Database
Surgical errors/complications: Introduction
Types of Surgical errors/complications:
Types of Surgical errors/complications:
How serious is Surgical errors/complications?
Complications of Surgical errors/complications:
see complications of Surgical errors/complications
What causes Surgical errors/complications?
Causes of Surgical errors/complications: see causes of Surgical errors/complications
Risk factors for Surgical errors/complications:
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risk factors for Surgical errors/complications
What are the symptoms of Surgical errors/complications?
Complications of Surgical errors/complications:
see complications of Surgical errors/complications
Surgical errors/complications: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Surgical errors/complications.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Surgical errors/complications.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Surgical errors/complications:
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Research for Surgical errors/complications:
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Society issues for Surgical errors/complications
Cost statistics for Surgical errors/complications:
The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Surgical errors/complications:
- $1,397.39 million in excess cost was attributable to patient safety incidents for failure to diagnose/treat in time in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $258.33 million in excess cost for post-operative haemorrhage or hematoma was attributable to patient safety incidents in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $463.13 million in excess cost for accidental puncture or laceration was attributable to patient safety incidents in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $17.25 million in excess cost for foreign bodies left in during a procedure was attributable to patient safety incidents in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $1.88 million in excess cost for complications of anaesthesia was attributable to patient safety incidents in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $183.64 million in excess cost for post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements was attributable to patient safety incidents in the US 2000-2002 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
- $1.4 million spent on post-operative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis annually in America 2000-02 (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
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Hospitalization statistics for Surgical errors/complications:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Surgical errors/complications:
- 0.99% (126,182) of hospital episodes were for complications of surgical and medical care in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 87% of hospital consultations for complications of surgical and medical care required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 50% of hospital episodes for complications of surgical and medical care were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 50% of hospital episodes for complications of surgical and medical care were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital admissions for complications of surgical and medical care required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 8.8 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for complications of surgical and medical care in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for complications of surgical and medical care in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Name and Aliases of Surgical errors/complications
Main name of condition: Surgical errors/complications
Other names or spellings for Surgical errors/complications:
surgery errors, surgery complications, Surgical misadventure
Postoperative complications
Source - Diseases Database
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