Introduction: The assessment of surgical quality is an essential tool in the improvement of patient
care and the most commonly used marker of quality in surgery is the incidence of post
operative complications.
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Clavien et al. define a complication as “any deviation from the ideal postoperative
course that is not inherent in the procedure and does not comprise a failure to cure.”
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Reporting these requires precision, consistency and reproducibility, factors that
can be guaranteed only through standard systems of classification.
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