{"title":"Recording of postoperative complications: quantity and quality.","authors":"Pierre Maina, Mads Carstensen, Hanne Tønnesen","doi":"10.1080/00000000000000013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate a simple working procedure for recording postoperative complications.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Prospective cohort study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Teaching hospital, Denmark.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>218 of 312 patients who were operated on from March to July 1996.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Follow up 30 days after operation by looking up the local register of complications, review of medical records and by structured telephone interview with the patient.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Morbidity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All the patients were recorded in the local register, showing a complication rate of 21% (n = 49). However the medical record and the telephone interview showed complication rates of 68 (31%) and 76 (33%), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It is possible to improve the quantity of the recording by a simplified working procedure, while the quality is still a challenge.</p>","PeriodicalId":22411,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica","volume":"168 12","pages":"736-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00000000000000013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Objective: To evaluate a simple working procedure for recording postoperative complications.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Teaching hospital, Denmark.
Subjects: 218 of 312 patients who were operated on from March to July 1996.
Interventions: Follow up 30 days after operation by looking up the local register of complications, review of medical records and by structured telephone interview with the patient.
Main outcome measures: Morbidity.
Results: All the patients were recorded in the local register, showing a complication rate of 21% (n = 49). However the medical record and the telephone interview showed complication rates of 68 (31%) and 76 (33%), respectively.
Conclusion: It is possible to improve the quantity of the recording by a simplified working procedure, while the quality is still a challenge.
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