title: Relative risk: mortality probability and plastic surgery.
abstract: Recent publications indicate an increasing interest in the description and assessment of risks related to medical and surgical treatment. The law may come to require fuller disclosure of therapeutic risks than was formerly the case. Against this background the mortality risks of plastic surgery procedures are considered in relation to other well documented mortality probabilities. The possible implications for clinical practice and "informed consent" are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Northen General Hospital, Sheffield.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D012307:Risk Factors; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000401:mortality*