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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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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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