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Fig. 1 | Patient Safety in Surgery

Fig. 1

From: Incidence and root causes of delays in emergency orthopaedic procedures: a single-centre experience of 36,017 consecutive cases over seven years

Fig. 1

Produced and delayed emergency surgery 2007–2013. Emergency surgery waiting list; every new patient is entered into an electronic surgical planning system as a file with a unique patient ID. The patient remains in the planning system until the operation is completed, transferred to another care-giver or the patient did not require surgery. Produced surgery; all the patients who underwent surgery at the current clinic. Delayed patients; all the patients that were delayed. No surgery; surgery on the waiting list that did not undergo surgery at the current clinic

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Patient Safety in Surgery

ISSN: 1754-9493