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Patient harm in general surgery--a prospective study.
Kaul AK, McCulloch PG. J Patient Saf. 2007;3:22-26.

The investigators found that prospective surveillance of surgical inpatients uncovered more adverse events than expected compared with published results on retrospectively collected data.

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