Report highlights shortcomings in surgery

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998A total of 19,496 people died within 30 days of having surgery during 1996-97, according to the report by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD). A sample of 2541 deaths of patients who underwent gynaecological, head and neck, minimally invasive, oesophageal, spinal or urological surgery were investigated in…

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