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Collecting Feedback to Improve Medical Practice

If you are a surgeon, wanting to improve your practice, … Continued

What’s your glove size, doc?

A SurgicalPerformance tale on the impact of working with unfamiliar … Continued

Hospital Readmission: a false marker of surgical quality?

In Australia, rates of unplanned readmission within 28 days of … Continued

Preventing Surgical Site Infections in Gynaecologic Surgery

Surgical site infections (SSIs) can occur within 30 days after … Continued

Do doctors’ online ratings compare with their actual surgical outcomes?

How do patients choose their surgeons? Are they solely guided … Continued

How to escape the pain of data entry while keeping your database

Believe it or not: In some countries, doctors do not … Continued

Surgeon Score Card

It is widely accepted that the risk of surgical complications … Continued

Gynaecological Surgical Complications

As health care professionals, favourable health outcomes are our foremost … Continued

Vaginal vault suturing

  I had the privilege to train with Dr Tony … Continued

How to claim CPD hours with RANZCOG

  RANZCOG recognises SurgicalPerformance users earning 1 CPD hour for … Continued

Morcellation without spillage

I was involved in a case of a patient who … Continued

10 questions you should ask yourself before you select your audit tool

Data fields are systematic and coded (not free hand); are … Continued

Doctor, will you do my operation? 

Discussing the role of surgical trainees with your patients Patients … Continued

Are surgeons guilty until proven otherwise?

A surgeon who I liked working with, was struck off … Continued

Why are only some co-morbidities recorded in SurgicalPerformance but not others?

  SurgicalPerformance users sometimes ask why certain co-morbidities are not … Continued

What is the difference between a Registry and SurgicalPerformance?

Clinical audit is recommended by multiple colleges and professional standards … Continued

20 Reasons to trust SurgicalPerformance

The standardised outcomes collected by SurgicalPerformance meet the data standards … Continued

First, do no harm

I was brought up by my surgical mentors to be … Continued