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About SASM
HISTORY
Mortality audit has been a long standing tradition in surgery. Lothian surgeons recently celebrated their 50th anniversary, Lothian Surgical Audit being essentially a peer review mortality audit. Based on this model, the Conference of the Royal Colleges in Scotland wished to further develop this methodology and extend it across Scotland and into all surgical specialties. The initial project was started in 1988 and a similar study in the Greater Glasgow Health Board started in 1989. These two parallel studies worked closely together and amalgamated into the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality in 1994.
CONTRIBUTING SPECIALTIES
The Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality has complete cover of all surgical specialties with the exceptions of Thoracic, Cardiac and Obstetric surgery who participate in UK wide national mortality audits. All deaths are now processed from a single office.
51 hospitals participate in SASM
| Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen | Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall |
| Ayr Hospital, Ayr | Borders General Hospital, Melrose |
| Belford Hospital, Fort William | Caithness General Hospital, Wick |
| Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock | Dr Gray’s Hospital, Elgin |
| Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary | Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries |
| Gilbert Bain Hospital, Lerwick | Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow |
| Institute for Neurological Sciences, Glasgow | Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride |
| Wishaw General Hospital, Wishaw | Inverclyde Royal Hospital, Greenock |
| McKinnon Memorial Hospital, Broadford, Skye | Lorn and Islands District General Hospital, Oban |
| Ninewells Hospital, Dundee | Monklands District Hospital, Airdrie |
| Raigmore Hospital, Inverness | Perth Royal Infirmary, Perth |
| Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital | Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline |
| Royal Hospital for Sick Children,Glasgow | Ross Hall Hospital, Glasgow |
| Royal Infirmary, Glasgow | Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley |
| St John’s Hospital at Howden, Livingston | Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh |
| Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow | Southern General Hospital |
| Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria | Stirling Royal Infirmary, Stirling |
| The Golden Jubilee Hospital, Clydebank | Stracathro Hospital, Brechin |
| Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy | Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow |
| Western General Hospital, Edinburgh | Western Infirmary, Glasgow |
| Western Isles General Hospital, Stornoway | Woodend General Hospital, Aberdeen |