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Automation in Surgical Adverse Event Documentation: Improving Completeness and Accuracy.

Francis D Graziano¹, Charles Z Jiang¹, Bracha L Pollack¹

¹Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

American Journal of Medical Quality : the Official Journal of the American College of Medical Quality

|February 24, 2026

Summary

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Automated surgical secondary events (SSE) reporting significantly enhances the completeness and accuracy of adverse event (AE) documentation. This system improves surgical quality data collection, especially for minor AEs.

Keywords:

automated reporting data accuracy data completeness surgical complications

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Medical Informatics
Surgical Quality Improvement
Health Data Management

Background:

Manual recording of surgical adverse events (AEs) is prone to incompleteness and inconsistency.
Accurate AE data is crucial for surgical quality assessment and patient safety.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the completeness and accuracy of surgical AE documentation between manual reporting and an automated system linked to a surgical secondary events (SSE) database.
To evaluate the impact of automated SSE reporting on capturing minor and major adverse events.

Main Methods:

Retrospective comparison of AE reporting methods.
Manual reporting cohort (October 2021 - April 2022) versus automated reporting cohort (January 2023 - July 2023).
AEs in the automated cohort were captured via a structured note-linked SSE database; outcomes assessed were completeness and accuracy.

Main Results:

Completeness of AE recording improved dramatically from 20% to 94% (P < 0.001) with automated reporting.
Capture of minor AEs increased from 7% to 96% (P < 0.001), and major AEs from 29% to 92% (P < 0.001).
Automated SSE reporting demonstrated substantial improvements in both completeness and accuracy of surgical AE documentation.

Conclusions:

Automated SSE reporting significantly enhances the completeness and accuracy of surgical adverse event documentation.
The system is particularly effective in improving the capture of minor adverse events.
This approach supports more reliable surgical quality data collection and patient safety initiatives.