Electronic Voting to Improve Morbidity and Mortality Conferences.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:It is of major importance in clinical surgery to identify potential patterns and specific causes of complications. Therefore, morbidity and mortality meetings (M&M) are widely used to discuss and evaluate deviations from expected outcomes in order to improve surgical practice. Moreover, M&M represent an important tool for continuous medical education. In this study, we introduced an electronic voting system to assess whether anonymity during M&M could limit potential biases due to hierarchical structures or opinion leaders. METHODS:This study was conducted in the surgical department of a European tertiary care center. During the study period, electronic voting was applied in 412 M&M cases and compared with a baseline of 330 conventional M&M entries. In this interrupted time seri

SUBMITTER: Zindel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182754 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature