Surgical data recording technology: a solution to address medical errors?

Neal A. Shah; Jessica Jue; Tim Mackey

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Surgical data recording technology: a solution to address medical errors?

September 18, 2019

Shah NA, Jue J, Mackey T. Ann Surg. 2020;271(3):431-433.

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Collecting real-time audio, video, and system data enables identification of process vulnerabilities. This commentary discusses the current state of black box approaches to collect surgical procedure data in situ and highlights challenges to its effective use and implementation to improve surgical safety.

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