[Medical audit in surgery].
Recording clinic data is essential to the process of evaluation of medical proceedings but, unfortunately, it is not a common practice among us. Therefore practitioners are not able to recall all their own medical records. We must know the therapeutic results to improve preceding decisions. Is has been hard to characterize the quality of medical care because of the lack of clinic data. Medical auditorship applies itself to define philosophical questions and to determine useful values in professional and scientific fields, available to any surgeon. Establishing an auditorship is first a need, second a choice. The evaluation of successful therapy and the rates of morbidity and mortality is the minimum we can expect in the immediate future.
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Dep. de Cir. do CCMB-PUC-SP.
D013502:General Surgery; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000592:standards*
Auditoria médica em cirurgia.