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Second Opinion and Transfer of Care

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Surgeons are dedicated to performing technically competent and expert operations: preventing complications wherever possible. Unfortunately, adverse events do occur and must be managed efficiently and effectively. When technical surgical complications occur as a result of an operative procedure, the surgeon must decide when to seek a second opinion and when to consider transfer of the patient for additional care.

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  1. Hartford Hospital, Hartford, USA

    Rocco Orlando III MD (Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer)

  2. University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, USA

    Rocco Orlando III MD (Professor of Clinical Surgery)

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Orlando, R., Orlando, R. (2012). Second Opinion and Transfer of Care. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_17

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