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12. Acknowledgments
VASM would like to acknowledge the support and assistance of the many individuals and institutions that have helped
in the development of this project, including:
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participating Victorian hospitals
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participating Victorian Fellows and International Medical Graduates
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assessors, in particular the dedicated and specialty-specific first-line and second-line assessors
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surgeons who have acted as assessors, for the time and effort providing detailed and valuable case note reviews
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hospital health information departments
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the VSCC
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Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality
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Australian Capital Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality
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Northern Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality
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Tasmanian Audit of Surgical Mortality
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National Coroners Information System
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South Australian Audit of Perioperative Mortality
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Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality
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Collaborating Hospitals’ Audit of Surgical Mortality
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Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators
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Victorian Department of Health, for funding the project
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Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash
University
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Renata Retegan, for providing the image on the front cover, ‘Autumn spirits’
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RACS, for infrastructure and oversight of this project.