Bowel & Bladder injury
A couple of months ago, I attended an AGES conference on surgical disasters. I am interested in surgical complications professionally and academically. The majority of participants were general gynaecologists.
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Tagged Complications, bowel injury, bladder injury, ureteric injury; Comments 4 ; Posted 11 years ago
Few doctors account for the majority of patient complaints
To many doctors, to receive a notice of a patient complaint seems random.
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Tagged Audit, Complications, complaints, Patient experience, RANZCOG, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 11 years ago
Australia’s wasteful research grant system
Medical researchers in Australia spent 511 person years (one person working for more than 5 centuries!) worth of time preparing research-grant proposals for consideration for funding by the National Health...
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Tagged Research, Cherish Foundation, Charity; Posted 11 years ago
Salpingectomy to reduce "ovarian cancer" risk
A few weeks ago we discussed the role of salpingectomy (without removing the ovaries) to prevent ovarian cancer. We agreed that …
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Tagged Salpingectomy, Ovarian Cancer, BRCA, Prophylactic; Posted 11 years ago
Surgical Checklists
Surgical Checklists demonstrated a significant reduction in postoperative morbidity and mortality in more than one very large study.
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Tagged Checklist, Audit, SurgicalPerformance, Complications; Posted 11 years ago
RANZCOG complications survey
I am an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in a small country town in NSW.
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Tagged Audit, SurgicalPerformance, RANZCOG, Complications; Comments 5 ; Posted 11 years ago by Elizabeth Varughese
FREE SurgicalPerformance Audit in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
If you think about it for a second it is pretty clear: You cannot improve outcomes that you don’t measure.I got in contact with the idea of “audit” when I...
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Tagged Audit, SurgicalPerformance; Posted 11 years ago
In what locations are super obese patients slim and easy to operate?
Obese and super obese women in particular benefit froma laparoscopic approach if they need pelvic surgery.
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Posted 11 years ago
My surgical training experience – a trainee’s perspective
Having just completed six years of O&G training is a good time to reflect on my past training, and specifically in relation to my surgical experience.
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Tagged Training; Comments 3 ; Posted 11 years ago by Kelvin Larwood
What can we achieve with $118,000 in medical research?
Last Sunday, we held the 2013 Battle Against Ovarian Cancer. The event was a phenomenal success.
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Tagged Cherish Foundation, Research, Battle against ovarian cancer; Comments 1 ; Posted 11 years ago
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