1. Morbidity and mortality conferences in general surgery: a narrative systematic review
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Slater, Nicholas, Sekhon, Perneet, Bradley, Nori, Shariff, Farhana, Bedford, Julie, Wong, Heather, Chiu, Chieh Jack, Joos, Emilie, Ball, Chad G., and Hameed, Morad
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Presentation graphics software -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Mortality -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Canada ,Surgery -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Morbidity -- Patient outcomes -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Complications and side effects ,Presentation graphics software ,Health ,Health care industry - Abstract
Background: In medical and surgical departments around the world, morbidity and mortality conferences (MMC) serve dual roles: they are cornerstones of quality-improvement programs and provide timely opportunities for education within the urgent context of clinical care. Despite the widespread adoption of MMCs, adverse events and preventable errors remain high or incompletely characterized, and opportunities to learn from and adjust to these events are frequently lost. This review examines the published literature on strategies to improve surgical MMCs. Methods: We searched OVID Medline, PubMed, Embase and CENTRAL. We defined our combination of search terms using a PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcome) model, focusing on the use of MMCs in general surgery. Results: The MMC literature focused on 5 themes: educational value, error analysis, case selection and representation, attendance and dissemination. Strategies used to increase educational value included limiting case presentation time to 15-20 minutes, mandatory brief literature reviews, increasing audience interaction, and standardizing presentations using a PowerPoint template or SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation) format. Interventions to improve error analysis included focused discussion on causative factors and taxonomic error analysis. Case selection was improved by using an electronic clinical registry, such as the National Surgery Quality Improvement Program, to better capture incidence of morbidity and mortality. Attendance was improved with teleconferencing. Dissemination strategies included MMC newsletters, incorporating MMCs into plan-do-check-act cycles, and surgeon report cards. Conclusion: Greater standardization of best practices may increase the quality improvement and educational impact of MMCs and provide a baseline to measure the effect of new MMC format innovations on the clinical and educational performance of surgical systems. Contexte : Dans les services de medecine et de chirurgie du monde entier, les conferences sur la morbidite et la mortalite (CMM) jouent 2 roles : elles forment la pierre angulaire des programmes d'amelioration de la qualite de soins et fournissent l'occasion de faire de l'enseignement dans le contexte meme des soins cliniques immediats. Malgre la popularite grandissante des CMM, le nombre d'evenements indesirables et d'erreurs evitables demeure eleve ou mal caracterise et on perd beaucoup d'occasions d'apprendre de ces evenements et d'apporter les changements qui s'imposent. La presente revue analyse la litterature publiee sur les strategies d'amelioration des CMM en chirurgie. Methodes : Nous avons interroge OVID Medline, PubMed, Embase et CENTRAL. Nous avons defini nos combinaisons de mots cles a l'aide du modele PICO (population, intervention, comparaison et resultat [outcome]), en mettant l'accent sur l'utilisation des CMM en chirurgie generale. Resultats : La litterature sur les CMM se concentrait sur 5 themes : valeur didactique, analyse des erreurs, selection et representation des cas, participation et dissemination. Les strategies utilisees pour accroitre la valeur didactique incluaient limiter la duree des presentations de cas a 15-20 minutes, presenter de breves revues de la litterature, favoriser les interactions avec l'auditoire et standardiser les presentations au moyen de modeles PowerPoint ou SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation). Les interventions visant a ameliorer l'analyse des erreurs incluaient une discussion sur les facteurs causaux et l'analyse des erreurs taxonomiques. La selection des cas a ete amelioree au moyen d'un registre clinique electronique comme le National Surgery Quality Improvement Program, pour mieux suivre l'incidence de la morbidite et de la mortalite. Les systemes de teleconferences ont ameliore la participation. Parmi les strategies de dissemination, mentionnons les bulletins sur les CMM, leur integration aux cycles planifier/faire/verifier/agir et les releves de notes des chirurgiens. Conclusion : Une meilleure standardisation des pratiques optimales pourrait ameliorer davantage la qualite des soins et augmenter l'impact didactique des CMM en plus d'offrir une base de reference pour mesurer l'effet des nouvelles mesures appliquees aux CMM sur le rendement clinique et didactique des systemes chirurgicaux., Since the early 1900s, morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) have been a refuge for thoughtful reflection and deliberation and a cornerstone of quality improvement efforts. (1-3) Often referred to as [...]
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