Incidence of surgical adverse events at a day hospital
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https://doi.org/10.22239/2317-269X.00865Keywords:
Adverse reaction, Day Care, Patient safety, Sanitary SurveillanceAbstract
Surgical adverse events are especially relevant because of their impact on patients’ health and because they are preventable events. Despite the growing number of publications in this area, there are still gaps in knowledge about these events in the ambulatory surgical care modality. This study aimed to estimate the incidence of surgical adverse events at a day hospital. It is a retrospective cohort study of 55,879 patients operated in a hospital between 2010 and 2014. The incidence of surgical adverse events was 0.51%. Of these, 0.31% were surgical site infections and 0.19% of other surgical adverse events proportionally distributed in surgical wound dehiscence (12.90%), hemorrhage (5.20%), phlebitis (5.20%) and lower limb thrombosis (4.90%). The results of this study confirm that the surgery performed at an outpatient day hospital is related to lower incidences of surgical adverse events; however, a follow-up of patients after discharge is indispensable in order to avoid under and subreporting, that can hide data and identify unrealistic rates.Downloads
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