Abstract
A new journal devoted to patient safety in surgery: the time is now!
Highlights
Surgical complications are analogous to "friendly fire" in wartime
A recently published analysis of the American College of Surgeons' closed claims study revealed that at total of 97% of all events leading to medicolegal claims involved a delay in diagnosis, a failure to diagnose, a delay in treatment, or a failure to treat [2]
Technical errors resulting in surgical complications represent only about half of all events leading to a claim [2]
Summary
Surgical complications are analogous to "friendly fire" in wartime. Both scenarios imply that harm is unintentionally done by somebody whose aim was to help. Adverse events resulting from surgical interventions are more frequently related to mistakes and failures before and after surgery than during the operative procedure itself [2].
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