Discussing Complications after Surgery Consists of Multiple Dimensions.

Surgeons are obligated to assure the highest quality of care for their patients, and part of this process is regular in-house audits to review their results and outcomes.[1] [2] Complications must be reported, documented, and discussed, to collectively learn from adverse events and to prevent them in the future.[3] [4] Multiple recent analyses provide information on the beneficial aspects of systematic prospective assessment of adverse events in the surgical management of patients to obtain the real incidence and extent of complications.[5] [6] [7] This strategy is the keystone to prepare for (serious) adverse events for the morbidity and mortality conferences, which, if necessary, result in amendments of the standard operating procedures (SOP) based on the discussions. While numerous projects focus on the patients' outcome after (serious) adverse events, the surgeon's perspective and their coping with those events is still neglected in the literature.[8]