Complications—A New Open-Access Journal to Improve Our Understanding of the Prevention and Management of Surgical, Interventional, and Anesthesiologic Complications and Adverse Events

Reporting surgical, interventional, and anesthesiologic complications is essential to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and to standardize and reproduce outcomes data. To address underlying issues in the reporting of complications and adverse events, it may be necessary to provide education and training, establish standardized definitions and reporting requirements, and create incentives for healthcare providers to report complications. Complications, a new international peer-reviewed open access journal, aims to provide best practice and expert opinion recommendations on the prevention, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and management of complications in basic, translational, and clinical research, as well as epidemiology. The journal invites authors to address four components of perioperative adverse events: assessment, reporting, the analysis of anticipatable factors, and management. The usability and practical implications of this information can have significant implications for academic and clinical practice. Priority lies in the assessment and reporting of adverse events, in order to standardize their management and improve the understanding of their impacts on patients’ peri-operative course.