So they ultimately forced nurses to stop reporting them. Data about MD's is generated in the Medical Staff Peer Review Process and is protected by statute in their personal files in the Medical Staff Office. In this case, since the vascular surgeon billed separately, he probably did. So physicians must report their own outcomes, and therefore find themselves in a conflict of interest. The person at risk to be sued for the event is the only one who can tell the patient about it.
Patients have a right to know everything about their care.
But even when they are advised about a complication, they don't know what to do. The patient probably doesn't think to ask a nurse who assisted about what happened, and the nurse can't talk about it anyway. That makes it possible to sort and analyze them. The names of categories vary between hospitals. Patient injuries 2.