With widespread recognition that surgical outcomes vary by provider, 1, 2 surgeons and
hospitals are increasingly being asked to provide evidence of the quality of care that they …

There has been a growing interest in the use of financial incentives to encourage
improvements in the quality of health care. Several articles have reviewed past studies of the …

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to
health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when …

The electronic medical record (EMR) is an enabling technology that allows physician
practices to pursue more powerful quality improvement programs than is possible with paper …

Background The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) is the first initiative that routinely reports
data on hospitals' performance nationally. Heretofore, such data have been unavailable …

As health costs in the US soar past $1.5 trillion, much evidence indicates that the nation
does not get good value for its money. It is widely agreed that we could do better by using …

Hospital profiling involves a comparison of a health care provider's structure, processes of
care, or outcomes to a standard, often in the form of a report card. Given the ubiquity of …

Objective To learn how patients in Medicare, the US medical insurance programme that
covers elderly patients, made decisions about where to undergo major surgery and how …

Objective: To evaluate from a hospital's perspective the costs and savings, over a 1-yr
period, of implementing The Leapfrog Group's Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing (IPS) …

The training of future surgeons must evolve in such a way that it ensures that surgical
practice meets the needs of modern societies. Many surgical educators and organizations …