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Surgeon’s Intuition: Is It Enough to Assess Patients’ Surgical Risk?

2007; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 31; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s00268-007-9145-9

1432-2323

Pierre‐Alain Clavien, Daniel Dindo,

Clinical practice guidelines implementation

SocieteInternationale de Chirurgie 2007 A daily task of the modern surgeon is to assess the risk/ benefit ratio of a procedure for a specific patient. The three key ingredients are the experience of the clinician in evaluating the available therapies for the specific medical problems, his or her competence in performing the chosen procedure, and knowledge about the risk factors. Patients, administrators, society, and health care policymakers ex- pect data regarding the outcome of respective procedures as well as the ''quality'' of doctors or hospitals. This is a challenging task, as we still lack standardized or widely accepted tools to perform such quality assessment con-