Are surgeons and anesthesiologists lying to each other or gaming the system? A national random sample survey about truth-telling practices in the perioperative setting in the United States

摘要

BackgroundThe perioperative setting demands strong teamwork to ensure safe patient care, but anecdotally surgeons and anesthesiologists are not always fully truthful with each other. The present study sought to determine the frequency of misrepresentation of the truth in the perioperative setting.