Publications by authors named "Kimberley Cottell"
Article Synopsis
- This study investigated potentially avoidable factors in urology-related deaths in Australian hospitals from 2009 to 2015, analyzing specific clinical management issues.
- The findings identified preoperative problems as the most common issues, particularly inadequate assessments and poor communication between medical teams, with a notable number of deaths related to failures in preoperative investigations and treatments.
- Overall, understanding these avoidable factors can help improve the quality and safety of urological surgical care and reduce mortality rates.
Background: Mortality rates are commonly used to evaluate the quality of surgical care; however, a large proportion of surgical deaths are unavoidable. Examination of the potentially avoidable issues in surgical deaths can provide a strong basis for quality improvement. Using data from a well-established and comprehensive national surgical mortality audit, we sought to identify the most common avoidable factors in neurosurgical deaths, focusing on the lessons that can be learnt.
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