Quality of Complication Reporting in the Surgical Literature

To identify 10 critical elements of accurate and comprehensive reports of surgical complications.Despite a venerable tradition of weekly morbidity and mortality conferences, inconsistent complication reporting is common in the surgical literature.An analysis of articles reporting short-term outcomes after pancreatectomy, esophagectomy, and hepatectomy was performed. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published from 1975 to 2001 and retrospective...