Patient Safety in Surgery is an open access PubMed-indexed journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in the field of surgical patient safety, and beyond.
The journal’s mission is to provide an international forum for healthcare professionals to report, discuss, debate, and critically review all aspects of care delivery that impose a risk on patient safety, with the ultimate goal of eliminating preventable adverse events and improving patient outcomes on a larger scale.
Patient Safety in Surgery is taking part in a special issue in collaboration with World Journal of Emergency Surgery to address the global burden of antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance on surgery and patient safety before, during, and after surgery, with a particular interest in the emergency surgery setting.
Guest Editor: Massimo Sartelli, MD, Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery & Macerata Hospital, Italy.
Submission Status: Open until 31 October 2024.
Guest Editors:
Kathryn Holland: Mission Health, United States
Roy Nanz: Mission Health, United States
Submission Status: Closed
The Correction to this article has been published in Patient Safety in Surgery 2021 15:22
Hospital length of stay (LOS) represents an underappreciated quality measure in modern healthcare. Patients who stay hospitalized beyond their predicted geometric mean length of stay (GMLOS) have an increased risk of sustaining preventable hospital-acquired conditions. Similarly, patients who are “boarding” in the emergency department (ED) are deprived of access to an appropriate level of in-hospital care. Thus, improved patient flow based on safe and timely hospital discharges represents a driving force in patient safety both for ED “holds” and for inpatients. The current featured article was designed to investigate the relationship between occurrence of postoperative complications and the overall inpatient hospital LOS. In a large-scale retrospective observational cohort study, the authors queried the “American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program” (ACS-NSQIP) registry in a cohort of 4,495,582 patients during a time-window from 2005 to 2018. The occurrence of postoperative complications was associated with a highly significant increase in postoperative LOS for up to additional 20 days, after risk adjustment (P<0.0001). The most pertinent drivers of prolonged hospitalizations were ventilator-dependent days, wound healing complications, and acute renal failure. The insights from this large-scale multicenter registry analysis are important for surgeons and administrators as an imperative to reduce preventable surgical complications and hospital-acquired conditions to help streamline hospital LOS as a modern patient safety measure.
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Patient Safety in Surgery