The Commonwealth Fund: Case Study
By Douglas McCarthy
http://www.cmwf.org/...
ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP)
https://acsnsqip.org/content/main/default.asp
The ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) is the first nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care.
The program employs a prospective, peer-controlled, validated database to quantify 30-day risk-adjusted surgical outcomes, which allows valid comparison of outcomes among all hospitals in the program. Medical centers and their surgical staff are able to use the data to make informed decisions regarding their continuous quality improvement efforts.
Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
http://www.medqic.org/scip/scip_homepage.html
The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national partnership of organizations committed to improving the safety of surgical care through the reduction of post-operative complications.
Quality improvement efforts will focus on reducing perioperative complications in four broad areas where the incidence and cost of complications are high:
- Surgical site infections
- Adverse cardiac events
- Venous thromboembolism
- Postoperative pneumonia
Although some surgical complications are unavoidable, surgical care can be improved through better adherence to evidence-based practice recommendations and more attention to designing systems of care with redundant safeguards.
Measures of surgical quality: what will patients know by 2005?
Broder MS, Payne-Simon L, Brook RH.
J Eval Clin Pract. 2005 Jun;11(3):209-17
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