Patient harm in general surgery--a prospective study.

Anil K Kaul; Peter G McCulloch

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Patient harm in general surgery--a prospective study.

April 4, 2007

Kaul AK, McCulloch PG. J Patient Saf. 2008;3(1).

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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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