title: [List of complications--reduction of errors and complications by elimination of unsafe actions and conditions].
abstract: The "Komplikationenliste " (list of complications) of the association of the heads of departments of the Swiss society of internal medicine is a clinical tool for the registration and reduction of complications/errors of medical treatment. It is the aim to improve patient safety in hospital medicine. By the systematic and prospective analysis of interventions and complications in the participating medical departments it is possible to collect also rare incidents. All the complications and errors are communicated to all the departments of internal medicine in Switzerland in order to reduce them. The principle for the reduction of such events is the elimination of unsafe actions and conditions and apparently harmless errors in daily diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in order to avoid the potentially serious consequences.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Abteilung, Spital Zollikerberg, Zollikerberg.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stäubli
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D013557:Switzerland; D013597:Systems Analysis