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- 1From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Outcome measurement in shoulder surgery is essential to evaluate the patient safety and treatment efficiency. Currently this is jeopardized by the fact that most patient-reported self-assessment...
- 2From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe recent article published in the Journal by Lindley and colleagues (Patient Saf. Surg. 2011, 5:33) reported the successful surgical treatment of a persistent thoracic pain following a T7-8 microdiscectomy, truly...
- 3From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Condom catheters are indicated in spinal cord injury patients in whom intravesical pressures during storage and voiding are safe. Unmonitored use of penile sheath drainage can lead to serious...
- 4From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPurpose In this retrospective study we investigated the clinical and radiological outcome after operative treatment of acute Rockwood III-V injuries of the AC-joint using two acromioclavicular (AC) cerclages and one...
- 5From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Current knowledge suggests that, by applying evidence-based measures relating to the correct use of prophylactic antibiotics, perioperative normothermia, urinary tract catheterization and hand hygiene,...
- 6From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground For recurrent disease or primary therapy of advanced ovarian cancer, cytoreductive surgery (CRS) followed by adjuvant chemotherapy is a therapeutic option. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome...
- 7From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The duty of a doctor to take care presumes the person who offers medical advice and treatment to unequivocally possess the skills and knowledge to do so. However, a sense of responsibility cannot be...
- 8From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedElectronic health records serve multiple purposes, including clinical communication, legal documentation, financial transaction capture, research and analytics. Electronic signatures attached to entries in EHRs have...
- 9From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground A significant proportion of surgical patients are unintentionally harmed during their hospital stay. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims to determine the aetiology of adverse incidents that lead to patient harm...
- 10From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) Breast Screening Programme has led to a considerable increase in the detection of impalpable breast cancer. Patients with impalpable breast cancer...
- 11From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The surgical management of renal cell carcinoma with invasion of the renal vein or inferior vena cava is associated with significant rates of perioperative morbidity and mortality. In this report we...
- 12From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Image guided spinal injections are successfully used in the management of low back pain and sciatica. The main benefit of CT-guided injections is the safe, fast and precise needle placement, but the...
- 13From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 2005 the Swiss government implemented new work-hour limitations for all residency programs in Switzerland, including a 50-hour weekly limit. The reduction in the working hours of doctors in training implicate an...
- 14From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAim Delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) may have important clinical and medico-legal implications. This study identifies the claims made on the basis of delay in the diagnosis of CRC to the Swedish...
- 15From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground To prevent surgical site infection it is desirable to keep bacterial counts low in the operating room air during orthopaedic surgery, especially prosthetic surgery. As the air-borne bacteria are mainly...
- 16From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Urological complications are the major cause of ill health in patients with spina bifida. Urinary sepsis accounted for the majority of admissions in patients with spina bifida. As the patient grows older,...
- 17From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The occurrence of synchronous or metachronous renal cell carcinoma and pancreatic tumors has been described only in a few cases in the scientific literature. The study of double primary cancers is...
- 18From: Patient Safety in Surgery. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The ingestion of non-food items in children is a relatively common event, often unwitnessed, unknown, and unreported. For those children brought in for medical evaluation, less than 10% require...