SURGICAL QUALITY: MEANING AND ASSESSMENT The Donabedian model consists of 3
components for measuring the quality of health care: structure, process, and outcome …

Background Recent events in health care reform have brought national attention to
integrating patient experiences and expectations into quality metrics. Few studies have …

Summary Background & aims Chronic Intestinal Failure (CIF) is the long-lasting reduction of
gut function, below the minimum necessary for the absorption of macronutrients and/or water …

Context Health care reform calls for increasing physician accountability and transparency of
outcomes. Partial mastectomy is the most commonly performed procedure for invasive …

Objective: To assess the impact of postoperative complications on full in-hospital costs per
case. Background: Rising expenses for complex medical procedures combined with …

Background Quality assurance is acknowledged as a crucial factor in the assessment of
oncological surgical care. The aim of this study was to develop a composite measure of …

Research on surgical interventions is associated with several methodological and practical
challenges of which few, if any, apply only to surgery. However, surgical evaluation is …

Context The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) aims to reduce surgical infectious
complication rates through measurement and reporting of 6 infection-prevention process-of …

BACKGROUND: Objective reporting of postoperative complications is the foundation of
surgical quality assurance. We developed a system to identify both presence and severity of …

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 …