Surgical Procedures, Operative - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance.

24 Sep 2009 Public health surveillance relies on standardised metrics to evaluate disease burden and health system performance. Such metrics have not been developed for surgical services despite increasing volume, substantial cost, and high rates of death and ... Read more...

No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations.

24 Sep 2009 Surgery and other invasive therapies are complex interventions, the assessment of which is challenged by factors that depend on operator, team, and setting, such as learning curves, quality variations, and perception of equipoise. We propose ... Read more...

Overweight/obesity and gastric fluid characteristics in pediatric day surgery: implications for fasting guidelines and pulmonary aspiration risk.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The safety of 2-h preoperative clear liquid fasts has not been established for overweight/obese pediatric day surgical patients. Healthy children and obese adults who fasted 2 h have small residual gastric fluid volumes (GFVs), which are ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Surgical Procedures, Operative - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Robotic-assisted surgery. 30 Oct 2009
• Shared accountability, appropriateness, and quality of surgical care. 12 Oct 2009
• Multihospital collaborations for surgical quality improvement. 12 Oct 2009
• Beyond outcomes--the appropriateness of surgical care. 12 Oct 2009
• Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery--an S.O.S. 29 Sep 2009
• Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. 24 Sep 2009
• No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations. 24 Sep 2009
• Is double gloving an effective barrier to protect surgeons against blood exposure due to needlestick injury? 30 Aug 2009
• Overweight/obesity and gastric fluid characteristics in pediatric day surgery: implications for fasting guidelines and pulmonary aspiration risk. 30 Aug 2009
• Attitudes of patients and care providers toward a surgical site marking policy. 7 Aug 2009
• [Adoption in France of a surgical safety checklist] 5 Aug 2009
• Improving patient safety with the use of surgical checklists. 30 Jul 2009
• Surgeons prepared for every eventuality. 30 Jul 2009
• European Hernia Society guidelines on the treatment of inguinal hernia in adult patients. 26 Jul 2009
• Assessing surgical quality using administrative and clinical data sets: a direct comparison of the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set. 5 Jul 2009
• Attitudes, awareness, and barriers regarding evidence-based surgery among surgeons and surgical nurses. 29 Jun 2009
• [Effective acquisition of basic surgical techniques through blended learning] 30 May 2009
• Dermatology for the general surgeon. 30 May 2009
• A new era in surgical research: getting back to the patient. 30 May 2009
• Training of surgeons in clinical research. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Surgical Procedures, Operative'

Definition: Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D013514

Alternative terms: Surgical Procedures, Operative; Operative Surgical Procedure; Operative Surgical Procedures; Procedures, Operative Surgical; Surgical Procedure, Operative; Operative Procedures; Operative Procedure; Procedure, Operative; Procedures, Operative; Procedure, Operative Surgical; Surgery, Ghost; Ghost Surgery;

Related Mesh Headings: Intraoperative Complications; Operating Rooms; Postoperative Complications; Reoperation; General Surgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04;

Online Note: pre-explosion = SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE (PX)

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: not the field nor specialty ( = GENERAL SURGERY); only the surgery patient or surgical procedures; prefer /surg with organs or disease; /instrum = SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS or SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; surgical injury = SURGICAL INJURIES see INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS: see TN 179; /hist = GENERAL SURGERY /hist; differentiation from GENERAL SURGERY: Manual 26.15+; unnecessary surgery = SURGERY, UNNECESSARY see UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES (IM) + specific surg procedure (IM); SECOND-LOOK SURGERY and REOPERATION are also available