Patients’ perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia

Table 1 Characteristic of included documents

Type of document		Number of documents (percentage of total included documents)		Length
Submissions made by women and/or their families	reporting TVM positive outcomes	49 (11.26%)		1 to 5 pages
Submissions made by women and/or their families	reporting TVM negative outcomes	371 (85.29%) + 18 supplementary documents		10 to 15 pages
Women	awaiting TVM procedure	2 (0.46%)		1 to 2 pages
Submissions made by patient advocates		8 (1.84%)	Submission 21	23 pages
			Submission 26	9 pages
			Submission 35	3 pages
			Submission 37	4 pages
			Submission 73	3 pages
			Submission 115 + 5 supplementary documents	118 pages
			Submission 129 + 3 supplementary documents	133 pages
			Submission 130	263 pages
Public hearings		5 public hearings (1.15%)	3 Aug 2017	58 pages
			25 Aug 2017	59 pages
			18 Sep 2017	66 pages
			19 Sep 2017	54 pages
			6 Feb 2018	19 pages

Note: Some women and their families wrote letters, others responded to a structured questionnaire created by a law firm to assist women and their advocates in responding to the inquiry. The questionnaire presented the Senate Inquiry’s terms of reference as open ended questions. This was designed to assist women to respond in a structured format [10]

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