3 Topic Commentaries

Getting Surgical Documentation Right

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  Edward D. McCoul, MD, MPH

  Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery

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  Ochsner Health; Ochsner Clinical School, University of Queensland; Tulane University School of Medicine

  The operative report is the surgeon’s most iconic form of accountability.

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  Justin B. Dimick, MD, MPH

  General Surgery

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  Department of Surgery, University of Michigan

  We need to take advantage of the richest source of data available to us: operative video.

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  Lygia Stewart, MD

  General Surgery

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  Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

  Current practice generates operative reports that vary widely in content and too often omit important elements.

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