Systematic review of hospital-wide complication registries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An institutional registry covering all surgical specialties could be an implementation tool in quality benchmarking between hospitals and aid determination of their cost-effectiveness. The objective of this systematic literature review was to evaluate original articles on existing prospective surgical registries that can be used by single institutions across surgical specialties.

Method

A systematic review of the literature using PRISMA guidelines was conducted for articles focusing on hospital-wide surgical registries. Single-specialty retrospective registries, non-defined outcome measures or system protocols, and studies not in English were excluded.

Results

Five articles were included for analysis. Evaluation of the articles revealed wide methodological

SUBMITTER: Saarinen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature