Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality

Tables

Table 1: Audit numbers over sequential audit periods.................................................................................................... 13

Table 2: Mortalities reported to VAED ............................................................................................................................ 14

Table 3: Characteristics of audited deaths over the audit period.................................................................................... 20

Table 4: Operative mortality frequency by specialty. ...................................................................................................... 26

Table 5: Clinically significant infections by type. ............................................................................................................. 34

Table 6: Time frame in which the clinically significant infection was acquired. .............................................................. 35

Table 7: Causes of trauma.............................................................................................................................................. 44

Table 8: Severity of criticism of perceived clinical management issues. ........................................................................ 48

Table 9: Frequency of clinical management issues during the audited period. .............................................................. 48