Reports, publications & lessons from the Audit
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Guidelines
Reports
QASM Perspective Short Reports
Perspective Volume 5 - Delayed interhospital transfers - Dec 2023 (PDF 2.25MB)
Perspective Volume 4 - Delay to surgery - June 2023 (PDF 1.54MB)
Perspective Volume 3 - Anticoagulation and the older surgical patient - Jan 2023 (PDF 1.79MB)
Perspective Volume 2 - Better to have done a different procedure - June 2022 (PDF 1.58MB)
Perspective Volume 1 - Decision to operate - Jan 2022 (PDF 1.63MB)
Aspiration Pneumonia September 2021 (PDF 3.26MB)
Annual Report July 2015-June 2020
Infections and surgical mortality 1 July 2011-30 July 2019 (PDF 646.22KB)
#NOF in the very elderly patient 2018 (PDF 2.43MB)
QASM Private Hospitals Infection Report 2017 (PDF 5.41MB)
Infections Report 2017 (PDF 602.32KB)
Annual Report 2007-2016 (PDF 3.69MB)
Annual Summary Report 2007-2016 (PDF 1.12MB)
Annual Report 2007-2015 (PDF 1.84MB)
Annual Summary Report 2007-2015 (PDF 351.81KB)
If you wish to see earlier reports please email a request to [email protected]
Publications
Critical Analysis of the Causes of In-Hospital Mortality following Colorectal Resection: A Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality (QASM) Registry Study from World Journal of Surgery 2022
Surgeons' Responses to a Surgical Mortality Audit: Accepting and Improving: A Cross Sectional Survey (PDF 420.11KB) from the Journal of Surgical Research, October 2021The associations of factors with previous alcohol use in the Northern Territory compared to other states - an observational study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2021 (PDF 382.43KB)
Learning from Regret from BJS (PDF 333.72KB) Nov 2019
Post‐mortem general surgeon reflection on decision‐making: a mixed‐methods study of mortality audit data from ANZJSurg, August 2018
Processes of care in surgical patients who died with hospital-acquired infections in Australian hospitals (PDF 487.95KB) - from the Journal of Hospital Infection, May 2018
Snapshot of trauma laparotomy deaths in Queensland (PDF 259.48KB) from ANZJSurg, January 2018
How participation in surgical mortality audit impacts surgical practice (PDF 390.71KB) from BMC Surgery, 2017
Analysis of Patients Who Died Following Hartmann’s Procedure (PDF 117.24KB) from AJMH, 2017
Clinical events reported by surgeons assessing their peers from American Journal of Surgery, May 2016
Surgical mortality audit data validity from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, Dec 2015
Surgical care for the aged: a retrospective cross-sectional study of a national surgical mortality audit from BMJ Open, Apr 2015
Lessons from the Audit
more recent issues via ANZASM Case Note Reviews
Lessons from the Audit Volume 1 (PDF 1.32MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 2 (PDF 2.35MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 3 (PDF 2.85MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 4 (PDF 2.16MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 5 (PDF 1.12MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 6 (PDF 1.29MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 7 (PDF 1.54MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 8 (PDF 1.77MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 9 (PDF 2.67MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 10 (PDF 3.13MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 11 (PDF 3.44MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 12 (PDF 3.45MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 13 (PDF 3.25MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 14 (PDF 4.57MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 15 (PDF 3.62MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 16 (PDF 3.39MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 17 (PDF 1.88MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 18 (PDF 972.38KB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 19 (PDF 5.8MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 20 (PDF 2.14MB)
Lessons from the Audit Volume 21 (PDF 6.36MB)