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| Title |
The horror of wrong-site surgery continues: report of two cases in a regional trauma centre in Nigeria
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Patient Safety in Surgery, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13037-014-0053-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Arinze Nwosu |
| Abstract |
Wrong- site surgeries are iatrogenic errors encountered in the course of surgical patient management. Despite the 'never do harm' pledge in the 'Hippocratic Oath' drafted in 5(th) century BC, man is after all human, with this limitation manifesting in the physician's art despite his best intention. Beyond the catastrophic consequences of wrong- site surgery on the patient and surgeon, and the opprobrium on the art of medicine, the incidents have come to be regarded as a quality-of-care indicator. Orthopaedic surgery is a specialty with a preponderance of this phenomenon and the attendant medico-legal issues relating to malpractice claims. Consequently the specialty had pioneered institutional initiatives at preventing these 'friendly-fires'. Awareness and implementation of these initiatives however remain low in many parts of the world, hampered by a culture of denial and shame. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 78 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 78 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Researcher | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 27 | 35% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 18% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 30 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2022.
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#963,500
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Outputs from Patient Safety in Surgery
#10
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#12,931
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Outputs of similar age from Patient Safety in Surgery
#1
of 12 outputs
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