Background Narrative operative reports (NOR) are important for cancer management but
often lack key information. This review investigated the efficacy of synoptic operative reports …

Importance Despite ongoing advances in the field of colorectal surgery, the quality of
surgical treatment is still variable. As an intrinsic part of surgical quality, the technical …

Objective: To create the first structured surgical report form for NBL with international
consensus, to permit standardized documentation of all NBL-related surgical procedures …

Background Implementation of best practices surgical checklists improves patient safety and
outcomes. However, documenting performance of these practices can be challenging. The …

Background Operative reports are a source of clinical data that can, for quality assurance
purposes, be used to document the performance of processes that affect the care of surgical …

Abstract The Operative Standards for Cancer Surgery manuals define critical elements of
optimal cancer surgery based on data and expert opinion. These key aspects of commonly …

Methods: INSRF was deployed to critically analyze 166 patients with abdominal or pelvic NB
who underwent surgery at our department between October 2021 and June 2023. Patient …

Background The operative dictation (OD) is the cornerstone of surgical communication, yet
there appears to be a lack of formal education of this skill by training programs. We …

Objectives The narrative operative report represents the traditional means by which breast
cancer surgery has been documented. Previous work has established that omissions occur …

Background Synoptic operative reporting is a solution to the poor quality of narrative reports.
Objective To develop operative report quality indicators (QI) for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y …