Prospective error recording in surgery: an analysis of 1108 elective neurosurgical cases.

Scellig Stone; Mark Bernstein

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Prospective error recording in surgery: an analysis of 1108 elective neurosurgical cases.

August 15, 2007

Stone S, Bernstein M. Neurosurgery. 2007;60(6):1075-80; discussion 1080-2.

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This analysis of cases performed by a single neurosurgeon found that errors occurred frequently, most were preventable, and 2.7% of patients experienced an adverse clinical outcome due to error.

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