SASM

The Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality has been in existence since 1994 and includes participation from all surgical specialties in Scotland with the exceptions of thoracic, cardiac and obstetrics.

The audit aims to identify all deaths under the care of a surgeon that occur in hospital with each case undergoing a peer review process. This will determine if there are any areas for consideration - where an aspect of care could have been improved - or an area of concern - where the assessor/coordinator felt that the quality of care provided was sub-optimal.

Over 1100 consultants (surgeons, anaesthetists, interventional radiologists and intensivists) voluntarily participate in the audit and approximately 3000 deaths are reviewed each year.

To help facilitate the audit an electronic data capture system was developed, eSASM, that all consultants are able to access.

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Evolving themes generated from the SASM "Taking Stock and Scoping the Future" workshop held on March 13th 2012 at Stirling Management Centre:

This workshop was attended by 80 clinicians including Surgical, Anaesthetic and Radiology Consultants and staff from ISD, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and one patient representative.

Tell us what you think? Please submit views by email to SusanStratton1@nhs.net , let us know which specialty you are from.

Click here to read; Summary of Main Themes from the meeting

eSASM

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eSASM Training Videos

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Survey Results

During 2011 SASM contacted all eligible clinicians and asked them to complete a short survey on the SASM process. The responses were collated and the report is available to view. Some changes have already been made and we aim to take forward some of the other points in future developments of SASM

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