Safer delivery of surgical services: a programme of controlled before-and-after intervention studies with pre-planned pooled data analysis

• Main Authors: Peter McCulloch (Author), Lauren Morgan (Author), Lorna Flynn (Author), Oliver Rivero-Arias (Author), Graham Martin (Author), Gary Collins (Author), Steve New (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: NIHR Journals Library, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: High rates of iatrogenic harm have been confirmed in observational studies of surgery. Most interventions designed to reduce this have been targeted at either workplace culture or operational systems. We hypothesised that an integrated intervention addressing both culture and system migh...