SynthesisWorld journal of surgery2019
Adverse Events in the Operating Room: Definitions, Prevalence, and Characteristics. A Systematic Review.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- "Talking to Someone Who Gets It…" Experiences of Surgical Site Teams in Implementing a Peer Support Programme for Surgeons After Adverse Events.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Chronic kidney disease status and intraoperative adverse events during partial nephrectomy: a propensity-score matched study.Translational andrology and urology · 2026Article
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- Improving Patient Safety Culture Perceptions in Resource-Limited Operating Rooms: A Nurse-Led Multifaceted Implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Improving anesthesia resident wellness: a facilitated peer discussion group evaluated with a pre-/post-intervention survey.Canadian medical education journal · 2025Article
- Translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric properties of the MISSCARE survey OR - Swedish version.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Effects of Implementing an ICU Discharge Readiness Checklist onHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Patient safety culture through the lenses of surgical patients: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The anatomy of safe surgical teams: an interview-based qualitative study among members of surgical teams at tertiary referral hospitals in Norway.Patient safety in surgery · 2024Article
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- Interprofessional staff perspectives on the adoption of or black box technology and simulations to improve patient safety: a multi-methods survey.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2023Article
- Improving Safety in Living Liver Donation: Lessons From Intraoperative Adverse Events in 438 Donors Undergoing a Left Liver Resection.Transplantation direct · 2023Article
- Applying an equity lens to hospital safety monitoring: a critical interpretive synthesis protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The association between patient safety culture and adverse events - a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdverse events occur commonly in the operating room (OR) and often contribute to morbidity, mortality, and increased healthcare spending. Validated frameworks to measure and report postoperative outcomes have long existed to facilitate exchanges of structured information pertaining to postoperative complication rates in order to improve patient safety. However, systematic evidence regarding measurement and reporting of intraoperative adverse events (iAE) is still lacking.
methodsWe searched Ovid Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases for articles published up to June 2016 that measured and reported iAE. We presented the terms and definitions used to describe iAE. We identified the types of reported iAE and summarized them into discrete categories. We reported frequencies of iAE by detection methods.
resultsOf the 47 included studies, 30 were cross-sectional, 14 were case-series, and 3 were cohort studies. The studies used 16 different terms and 22 unique definitions to describe 74 types of iAE. Frequencies of iAE appeared to vary depending on the detection methods, with higher numbers reported when direct observation in the OR was used to detect iAE. Twenty studies assessed severity of iAE, which were mostly based on whether they resulted in postoperative outcomes.
conclusionsThis study systematically reviewed the current evidence on prevalence and characteristics of iAE that were detected by direct observation, reviews of patient charts, administrative data and incident reports, and surveys and interviews of healthcare providers. Our findings suggest that direct observation method has the most potential to identify and characterize iAE in detail.
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