Failure to rescue and preventability: Striving for the impossible?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Failure to rescue patients after emergency laparotomy for large bowel perforation: analysis of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA).BJS open · 2021
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2. Laparoscopy improves failure to rescue compared to open surgery for emergent colectomy.Updates in surgery · 2020
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3. Failure to rescue in surgical patients: A review for acute care surgeons.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2019
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4. Role of Preventability in Redefining Failure to Rescue Among Major Trauma Patients.JAMA surgery · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Failure-to-rescue after injury is associated with preventability: The results of mortality panel review of failure-to-rescue cases in trauma.2017

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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