Quality measurement affecting surgical practice: Utility versus utopia

LR Henry, UW von Holzen, MJ Minarich… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triple Aim: improving healthcare quality, cost and patient experience has
resulted in massive healthcare “quality” measurement. For many surgeons the origins, intent …

When good operations go bad: the additive effect of comorbidity and postoperative complications on readmission after pulmonary lobectomy

RA Jean, AS Chiu, DJ Boffa, FC Detterbeck… - Surgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Hospital readmission after major thoracic surgery has a marked effect on health
care delivery, particularly in the era of value-based reimbursement. We sought to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Correlation between perioperative outcomes and long-term survival for non–small lung cancer treated at major centers

M Hennon, A Groman, A Kumar, L Castaldo… - The Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The public is placing increased emphasis on specialty specific rankings,
thereby affecting patients' choices of clinical care programs. In the spirit of transparency …

Delayed discharge does not decrease the cost of readmission after pulmonary lobectomy

RA Jean, AS Chiu, DJ Boffa, FC Detterbeck, AW Kim… - Surgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Readmission after pulmonary lobectomy has become a potentially avoidable
source of excess health care costs. Initiatives that focus on expedited discharge after …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical trends and effects on quality metrics for surgical gastroesophageal cancer care

RE Schwarz - Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Surgical therapy of mid-stage gastric cancer (GC) and other neoplastic
conditions requiring gastric resection remains at the center of curative outcomes, while …

[PDF][PDF] ΟΓΚΟΙ ΜΕΣΟΘΩΡΑΚΙΟΥ: ΜΕΘΟΔΟΙ ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΠΕΛΑΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΣΧΕΤΙΣΗ ΜΕ ΚΛΙΝΙΚΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΜΕΤΡΟΥΣ

ΙΚ Καραμπίνης, Χ Θώρακος - pergamos.lib.uoa.gr
Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματοποιήθηκε αναδρομική μελέτη σειράς 51
ασθενών που υπεβλήθηκαν σε χειρουργική αφαίρεση όγκου μεσοθωρακίου κατά το χρονικό …

Survival Benefits in Elderly Patients Undergoing Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement with a Porcine versus a Pericardial Bioprostheses: A Retrospective Propensity …

G Ebra - 2020 - search.proquest.com
The elderly population is growing at an unprecedented rate. As individuals age, they may
develop life-threatening aortic valvular disease and require aortic valve replacement. The …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of Improvement of Surgical Safety Checklist on Surgical Technologists's Attitude and Satisfaction

S Mosleh, M sadegh Aboutalebi - jps.ajaums.ac.ir
Introduction: One of the primary duties that circulating and scrub nurses fulfill is to record
instruments and procedures adopted during a surgical operation. The present research was …

بررسی تاثیر ارتقاء چک لیست ثبت تجهیزات و وقایع در طول عمل جراحی بر نگرش و رضایت تکنولوژیست های اتاق عمل

مصلح, سرور, ابوطالبی - علوم پیراپزشکی و بهداشت نظامی, 2020‎ - jps.ajaums.ac.ir
مقدمه: انجام ثبت تجهیزات و وقایع در طول عمل جراحی از وظایف اصلی پرستار اسکراب و سیار می
باشد. این تحقیق با هدف بررسی دیدگاه تکنولوژیست های اتاق عمل از چک لیست ثبت فعلی و چک …

[PDF][PDF] Lobectomy for patients with marginal pulmonary function: an indication for robotics

PJ Kneuertz, RE Merritt - Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2019 - cdn.amegroups.cn
E87 decreasing pulmonary function (5). In contrast to the linear increase in pulmonary
morbidity that is seen with open lobectomy, they observed that complication rates with VATS …