Journal article
Quality of inguinal hernia operative reports: room for improvement
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Operative reports (ORs) serve as the official documentation of surgical procedures. They are essential for optimal patient care, physician accountability and billing, and direction for clinical research and auditing. Nonstandardized narrative reports are often of poor quality and lacking in detail. We sought to audit the completeness of narrative inguinal hernia ORs.
METHODS: A standardized checklist for inguinal hernia repair (IHR) …
Authors
W. G; Pooni A; Forbes SS; Eskicioglu C; Pearsall E; Brenneman FD; McLeod RS
Journal
Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 393–397
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
December 1, 2013
DOI
10.1503/cjs.017412
ISSN
0008-428X