Letter to the editor

Surgery

Volume 224 - Issue 3

Non-Technical Errors Associated With Deaths in Surgical Care, Australia, 2012–2019, by Surgical Specialty (Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality)

Authors: Jesse Ey, Guy J. Maddern

Correspondence: guy.maddern@adelaide.edu.au

Med J Aust 2026 || doi: 10.5694/mja2.70176
Published online: 24 March 2026

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Non-Technical Errors Associated With Deaths in Surgical Care, Australia, 2012–2019, by Surgical Specialty (Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality)

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