Postoperative complications represent a major public health burden worldwide. Without
standardized, clinically relevant and universally applied endpoints, the evaluation of surgical …

Background: Although there is broad policy consensus that both cost containment and
quality improvement are critical, the association between costs and quality is poorly …

Objective: To determine the incremental hospital cost and mortality associated with the
development of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) and with other associated …

BACKGROUND: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal approach to
perioperative care that combines a range of interventions to enable early mobilization and …

This multicentric study of 17 high-volume centers presents 12 benchmark values for liver
transplantation. Those values, mostly targeting markers of morbidity, were gathered from …

Importance Novel approaches to perioperative surgical care focus on optimizing nutrition,
mobility, and pain management to minimize adverse events after surgical procedures …

Objective To evaluate 'days at home up to 30 days after surgery'(DAH30) as a patient-
centred outcome measure. Design Prospective cohort study. Data source Using clinical trial …

Importance Increased costs of surgical complications have been borne mostly by third-party
payers. However, numerous policy changes aimed at incentivizing high-quality care shift …

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider
reimbursements into a single payment for the entire episode. We found that current …

Traditional surgical outcome measures include minor and major complications, hospital
length of stay and sometimes longer‐term survival. Each of these is important but there …