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		drumttocs8 on April 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, ... That's terrifying. Thousands and thousands of lives have been lost simply because we were forgetting to do the right things? And we created a process to fix this in... 2019?

DanBC on April 17, 2019 [–]

The process was introduced in 2008.

This news is that we've now run research across an entire country (Scotland) for the surgery carried out between 2000 to 2012 to find out how much harm has been prevented.

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