Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
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J Healthc Risk Manag · Feb 2020
A contemporary medicolegal analysis of perioperative vision loss from 2007 to 2016.
Perioperative vision loss (POVL) is a rare but catastrophic event. Closed claim databases are useful for investigating risk factors of POVL to help guide practices in risk mitigation and risk management strategies. ⋯ POVL often results in permanent injury with costly burden on the health care system. Risk reduction strategies need to be instituted on the provider and system level, involving a multidisciplinary health care team to develop and execute clinical protocols and patient communication strategies that will help prevent POVL.