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Marie Claire Rassweiler1, Charalambos Mamoulakis, Hannes Gotz Kenngott

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Area of Science:

  • Medical error analysis
  • Surgical safety
  • Healthcare quality improvement

Background:

  • Surgical errors are frequent, comprising 50% of hospital adverse events.
  • Urology ranks fifth in the frequency of adverse events among surgical specialties.
  • Existing classifications categorize errors by occurrence (co-face, systemic) or outcome (near miss, recovery, remediation).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review surgical error classifications.
  • To discuss methods for detecting and preventing surgical errors.
  • To highlight the need for specific error classification in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).

Main Methods:

  • Literature search of PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane Library.
  • Keywords included "Endoscopy," "surgical procedures, minimally invasive," and "medical error."
  • Article selection by three senior minimally invasive surgery (MIS) authors.

Main Results:

  • Surgical errors are unintended healthcare outcomes due to care defects.
  • A specific classification for MIS errors (Cushieri) exists, based on procedural steps.
  • No established classification has been applied to urology.
  • Error detection relies on effective reporting systems.

Conclusions:

  • Surgical errors constitute a substantial part of medical errors.
  • Multiple classification systems exist, each serving specific purposes.
  • While a general classification is used, a more refined system is proposed for MIS.