Over the past decade, failure to rescue—defined as the death of a patient after one or more
potentially treatable complications—has received increased attention as a surgical quality …

Patient safety is an activity to mitigate preventable patient harm that may occur during the
delivery of medical care. The European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA)/European Union of …

The popular inverse probability weighting method in causal inference is often hampered by
extreme propensity scores, resulting in biased estimates and excessive variance. A common …

Importance Intraoperative anesthesiology care is crucial to high-quality surgical care. The
clinical expertise and experience of anesthesiologists may decrease the risk of adverse …

Importance The surgeon-anesthesiologist teamwork and relationship is crucial to good
patient outcomes. Familiarity among work team members is associated with enhanced …

Background Real-time prediction of surgical duration can inform perioperative decisions and
reduce surgical costs. We developed a machine learning approach that continuously …

Non-Technical Skills (NTS) can be defined as a constellation of cognitive and social skills,
exhibited by individuals and teams, needed to reduce error and improve human …

Background Surgery at night (incision time 17: 00 to 07: 00 hours) may lead to increased
postoperative mortality and morbidity. Mechanisms explaining this association remain …

Importance Intraoperative handovers of anesthesia care are common. Handovers might
improve care by reducing physician fatigue, but there is also an inherent risk of losing critical …

Objective: To evaluate the impact of direct discharge home (DDH) from ICUs compared with
ward transfer on safety outcomes of readmissions, emergency department (ED) visits, and …