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01-06-2008 | Invited Commentary

What Is a Surgical Complication?

Authors: Daniel Dindo, Pierre-Alain Clavien

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 6/2008

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Quality assessment programs have been well-established tools in industry for decades. A unique focus on quality assessment significantly contributed to the economic success of Japan in the early 1950s, and this philosophy of steadily improving quality by continuous measurement of specific outcome variables reached the Western world only many years later. In medicine, these principles have been adopted very slowly and are still incomplete in many areas, possibly because of a lack of true competition among health care providers. …

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Title: What Is a Surgical Complication?
Authors: Daniel Dindo
Pierre-Alain Clavien
Publication date: 01-06-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 6/2008
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-008-9584-y

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