[Ways to decrease postoperative mortality in acute surgical diseases of the abdominal organs in a city hospital]

Under analysis there were 4227 case histories of patients operated upon in 1978-1987 for acute surgical diseases of the abdominal organs. It was found that diagnostic, tactical and technical medical errors had taken place in 24.8% of the cases at the hospital stage. In 113 dead patients errors responsible for the lethal outcome were found in 30% of the cases. For the period from 1987 to 1997 postoperative lethality from acute surgical diseases was substantially decreased due to the improvement of professional training of the surgeons, less amount of errors, using the present-day methods of treatment and surgery.