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01-06-2008 | Invited Commentary

What is a Surgical Complication?

Author: Malcolm H. Wheeler, MD, FRCS

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

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A surgical complication is deemed to have occurred when there is an undesirable, but not necessarily unexpected or unpredicted, direct result of an operation, affecting the patient. This may occur even if the surgeon has performed the technical steps of the procedure in an exemplary manner and adopted standards of care that would be considered by peers to be appropriate for all circumstances concerning the particular patient and his or her pathology. It is self-evident that with respect to cosmetic considerations there will be a wide range of subjective evaluations, most of them patient dependent. …

Sokol Dk, Wilson J (2008) What is a surgical complication? World J Surg. doi:10.1007/s00268-008-9471-6

Title: What is a Surgical Complication?
Author: Malcolm H. Wheeler, MD, FRCS
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/s00268-008-9518-8

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