Erschienen in:
01.05.2009
What Is a Surgical Complication?
verfasst von:
Steven C. Cunningham, Stephen M. Kavic
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 5/2009
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Excerpt
Confucius taught us that “if terms be incorrect, then statements do not accord with facts; and when statements and facts do not accord, then business is not properly executed” [
1]. Recently, Dindo and Clavien [
2] and Sokol and Wilson [
3] have advanced the discussion regarding the definition of the term
postoperative complications. We suggest that use of the word
complication to refer to adverse
intraoperative events warrants further comment. …