title: Endoscopic threaded imaging port to improve laparoscopic safety.
abstract: President Clinton's Advisory Commission report on Consumer Protection & Quality in the Health-Care Industry, identified medical error prevention as an important issue in health-management. Patient safety is finally being institutionalized due to growing concern over the increasing cost of human error. Medicine's punitive perfectibility model in dealing with unintended injury is slowly evolving to accept error during operations as an inevitable, yet manageable, reality of surgery.
authors.affiliation: St. Joseph's Health Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Artin M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ternamian
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D020706:Laparoscopes; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*