The POSSUM System of Surgical Audit
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- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 137 (1) , 15-19
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.137.1.15
Abstract
Surgical audit is not a new phenomenon. As early as 1750 BC, King Hammurabi of Babylon issued decrees for the punishment of negligent physicians, particularly surgeons. In such a decree discovered at Susa in Iran and inscribed on a 2-m-high black diorite stone, Hammurabi states that:Keywords
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