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Transforming surgical morbidity and mortality into a systematic case review
Jennifer Bruny1, Thomas Inge1, Michael Rannie2
1Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO; University of Colorado, Aurora, CO.
Background/Purpose:
The surgical morbidity and mortality (M&M) conferences at a regional children's hospital achieved the goals of case by case peer review and education for trainees but provided limited data for trending and analysis. In 2019, an institution-wide effort was initiated to create an electronic case review system with the goals of improving event capture and real-time practice performance feedback. Surgical M&M was migrated to this structured case review format to provide a platform for surgical performance improvement.
Methods:
An online secure database was created with a 3-step classification system based on Clavien-Dindo severity score, peer review, and causality fishbone analysis. The data entered were available in an interactive dashboard. Retrospective tabulation of the 2018 M&M data was performed using the archived paper system used prior to 2019.
Results:
For the calendar year of 2019, the division of pediatric surgery captured and categorized 193 complications in the case review system. The capture rate was 50 per 1000 surgical procedures. For a similar time frame in 2018, the capture rate was 35 per 1000 surgical procedures. The dashboard provided run charts of the incidence and types of complications by procedure and by surgeon. Similar trend data were not available in 2018. The dashboard output has made possible the creation of (non- risk adjusted) individual surgeon performance reports. The output has been used to direct process improvement projects and educational content.
Conclusion:
Creation of an online database with interactive dashboard has allowed surgical M&M to evolve into a systematic case review that greatly facilitates quality improvement efforts. This system increased the event capture rate and provided novel practice performance feedback, resulting in process improvement projects and educational objectives predicated on the trending data. These electronic reporting tools are now available to all surgical divisions and represent a transformative approach to surgical case review.
Type Of Study:
Retrospective Historical control; Quality improvement.
Level Of Evidence:
Level III.
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