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Welcome to SURGbase, a surgical
audit / database designed by an Australian doctor specifically for the Australian Surgical environment
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What is Surgical Audit? |
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According to the Australasian College of Surgeons,
surgical audit is a comparison against recognised
standards of current surgical practice in order to improve
the quality of care to patients. Data is collected with
defined criteria. Comparisons are undertaken and
recommendations for change made and followed up.
The key to surgical audit is to pose sensible questions,
and to collate information from a variety of sources to
deliver an answer.
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Examples of good questions include:
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What is the stroke rate among patients undergoing
carotid surgery in our institution?
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What is the bile leak rate in our Unit?
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What is the wound infection rate in all patients
having ‘clean’ surgery?
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What has happened to all of our bowel resections over
the past 12 months?
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How many of our patients had an unplanned returned to
theatre < 28 days?
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Are our Registrars getting enough operative
experience?
SURGbase have
been performing surgical audit in Australian hospitals
for many years, and have refined our techniques for
delivering comprehensive answers to sensible, clinically
relevant questions.
The Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons provides a great resource for
those interested in reviewing the requirements of
surgical audit. See
Surgical Audit and peer review, 2005.
The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality (WAASM)
is a peer review process to independently review deaths
in surgical patients in Western Australia. It is being
used as a model to be implemented nationally. See the
Annual Report, 2005
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| Who
are SURGbase? |
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SURGbase designs and maintains clinical databases for the
Australian health care sector. The capture of data is
‘live’, entered by users at the time of operative
intervention, complication, or discharge. An alternative
model involves the use of “data-entry” personnel and
paper-based auditing by doctors. We have a proven track
record at multi-site hospital networks, running
enterprise-wise solutions. Our software can be used by any
specialty, at any hospital in Australia.
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SURGbase collect
the expanded College dataset, and additional fields
relevant to particular specialties. Our software was
designed by a doctor, and implemented with a view to
being very easy to use. In spite of being user-friendly, SURGbase have a team of IT staff who ensure that our
databases use current technology and are regularly
maintained, updated, and serviced.
Our software
produces training logbooks for most surgical
specialties, in a format that is consistent with the
unique approaches undertaken by each College.
SURGbase are committed to delivering audit solutions for
the long-term. Our aim is to integrate with the various
Australian surgical colleges, minimizing duplication of
specialty-specific datasets within individual
enterprises.
If you have an idea for integration / development,
please let us know.
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| SURGbase
Enterprise |
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SURGbase
Enterprise is our latest software development. We
have designed our software to cater for ANY Surgeon or Registrar, of ANY specialty, including General Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, and Gynaecological Surgery.
Our reports are a mixture of generic audits, and tailored
audits to suit individual specialties.
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SURGbase
Enterprise Edition is a custom-designed application
(Java JDK 1.4.2+ / JBoss J2EE Server 4.0.0+ / Can run on
Linux, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003).
Desktops require Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.4.2+ /
Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X v10.4+ / Pentium 4 2.0Ghz+
recommended. It can be run on SQL Server 2000 (license
cost not included), or PostgreSQL. Our system
architecture is based on a modern Enterprise
multi-tiered architecture that is split into three
layers, the rich client is built using a modern Java
user interface technology.
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| Contact |
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SURGbase Pty. Ltd.
PO BOX 395
Nunawading VIC 3131
Tel 0402 061 023
Email: Info@surgbase.com.au
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