RNSH SERT Institute HAC Report

OFFICIAL: Sensitive – NSW Government

Hospital-acquired complication counts: by DoSA specialty Figure 3 groups HACs by surgical specialty. To ensure greater accuracy, HACs were assigned specialties based on a predefined list of DoSA surgeons and their respective specialties, rather than the specialties listed in the Admitted Patient and Surginet extracts. Table 1 is a numerical summary of the chart in Figure 3.

Neurosurgery reported the highest number of HACs over this reporting period.

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200

300

400

500

5

Breast Surgery

1

1

Burns/Plastics

6

112

25

Cardiothoracic Surgery

36

283

118

Colorectal Surgery

37

91

53

Endocrine Surgery

2

33

8

ENT Surgery

5

19

40

Hand Surgery & Peripheral Nerve…

2

27

12

Neurosurgery

36

302

26

Ophthalmology

8

7

Orthopaedic Surgery

24

272

70

Upper GI Surgery

74

135

101

Urology

16

20

54

Vascular Surgery

7

155

23

Non-operative Operative (Emergency)

Operative (Elective)

Figure 3. All HACs by non-operative admission, elective operative admission, and emergency operative admission, grouped by surgical specialty.

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