Pediatric surgical errors: a systematic scoping review.

Katherine M Marsh; Mark A Fleming; Florence E. Turrentine; Daniel E Levin; Jeffrey W Gander; Jessica Keim-Malpass; R Scott Jones

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Pediatric surgical errors: a systematic scoping review.

July 20, 2022

Marsh KM, Fleming MA, Turrentine FE, et al. J Pediatr Surg. 2022;57(4):616-621.

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Patient safety improvement can be hindered by lack of effective measurement tools. This scoping review explored how medical errors are defined and measured in studies of pediatric surgery patients. The authors identified several evidence gaps, including absence of standardized error definitions.

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