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Analysis of Surgical Mortalities Using the Fishbone Model for Quality Improvement

Completed
Conditions
Complication of Surgical and Medical Care, Unspecified
Interventions
Other: observation
Registration Number
NCT05015959
Lead Sponsor
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Brief Summary

Retrospective data analysis of mortalities and the evaluation of the quality of care offered, using the Fishbone method.

Detailed Description

Evaluation of mortalities seen between 01 January 2017 and 31 December 2018. Analysis of the mortality decision into preventable, non-preventable and potentially preventable categories. Identifying the associated risk factors and co-morbidities in a single centre study in Johannesburg. Further analysing was performed on the subset of preventable mortalities and further do the fishbone model of quality of care. RedCap data was utilized for all data points. A further comparison was done to the MNM classification based on the team and an independent senior surgeon.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
859
Inclusion Criteria

All mortality of patients seen in the Department who were 18yrs or older

Exclusion Criteria
  • incomplete data death in the Emergency department

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
mortality outcomesobservationmortality classification into preventable, potentially preventable and non-prevenatable
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
mortality outcomesstudy period (Jan 2017 to Dec 2018)

in-hospital mortality

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

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Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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