Developing a weekly patient safety and quality meeting in a medium-sized GI surgical unit in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) meetings are advocated as part of good surgical practice, but have been criticised as a method of improving patient outcomes. Several groups have re-designed the format of M&M meetings to improve reporting of complications, near misses and maximise learning points. As a medium sized department of 8 GI surgeons in the UK, we wished to explore and discuss the complications encountered in our clinical practice in more detail than currently available in our monthly M&M/audit meeting, in order to try and improve the quality of care we deliver to our patients. This article describes the practicalities of introducing a weekly meeting and reports on the initial data generated from the patients discussed.

Methods

Four groups of general surgica

SUBMITTER: Davies J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3904932 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature