November 23, 2009Annals of Surgery
Variability in Length of Stay After Colorectal Surgery
Population
Patients undergoing colorectal surgery
Design
Other
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
NSQIP LOS metrics may enable colorectal surgery benchmarking; leaves open prospective impact on quality improvement.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients undergoing colorectal surgery
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Outcome
Length of stay (LOS)
Risk-adjusted LOS measures from ACS NSQIP data can be used to identify outlying performance and motivate quality improvement in colorectal surgery.
Cite This Study
Cohen et al. (2009) studied this question.