The measurement and monitoring of surgical adverse events

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Surgical Wound Infection 83%
• Anastomotic Leak 47%
• Venous Thrombosis 43%
• Mortality 20%
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) 17%
• Routine Diagnostic Tests 16%
• Morbidity 10%
• Primary Health Care 9%
• Consensus Development Conferences 8%
• Length of Stay 8%
• Surgeons 8%
• Computer Security 7%
• Bibliographic Databases 7%
• Human Rights 7%
• Risk Adjustment 7%
• Private Sector 7%
• Privacy 6%
• Suppuration 6%
• Legislation 6%
• Infection Control 5%
• Natural History 5%
• Pelvis 5%
• Fibrinogen 5%
• Hospital Mortality 5%
• Upper Extremity 5%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 5%
• Reproducibility of Results 5%
• Libraries 5%
• MEDLINE 4%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 4%
• Postoperative Complications 4%
• Risk Assessment 4%
• Lower Extremity 4%
• Epidemiology 4%
• Systematic Reviews 4%
• Occupational Groups 4%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 3%
• Delivery of Health Care 3%
• Health 2%
• Wounds and Injuries 2%

Social Sciences

• adverse events 100%
• monitoring 54%
• mortality 25%
• death 19%
• event 17%
• diagnostic test 16%
• morbidity 13%
• grading 9%
• literature 9%
• construct validity 8%
• recording 7%
• surveillance 7%
• risk adjustment 6%
• human rights legislation 6%
• hospital discharge 6%
• privacy right 6%
• data capture 5%
• inclusion 5%
• data exchange 5%
• development of methods 5%
• evidence 5%
• assessment criteria 5%
• gold standard 5%
• cause 5%
• costs 4%
• data protection 4%
• surgery 4%
• epidemiology 4%
• audit 4%
• risk assessment 4%
• attribution 3%
• private sector 3%
• Healthcare 3%
• personnel 3%
• coverage 3%
• efficiency 3%
• time 3%
• staff 2%
• history 2%
• lack 2%
• trend 2%
• performance 2%
• health 1%
• evaluation 1%
• Group 1%