Open AccessProspective assessment of intraoperative precursor events during cardiac surgery☆
Author(s) -
Daniel Wong,
Thomas J. Vander Salm,
Imtiaz S. Ali,
Arvind K. Agnihotri,
Richard M.J. Bohmer,
David F. Torchiana
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.01.001
Subject(s) - medicine , adverse effect , cardiac surgery , near miss , prospective cohort study , emergency medicine , surgery , forensic engineering , engineering
Increasing attention has been afforded to the ubiquity of medical error and associated adverse events in medicine. There remains little data on the frequency and nature of precursor events in cardiac surgery, and we sought to characterize this.
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