Safety in numbers
Open Access
- 17 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 91 (6), 653-654
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.4648
Abstract
Patient Safety Leading Article Series, 2004. Continuing BJS's 2004 series on patient safety, Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center considers the effects of specialisation and surgical volume, from the viewpoint of both the surgeon and the institution. The numbers are interesting—and informative—but the whole picture is far from simple and the future is far from clear.Keywords
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