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March 28, 2015Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Patient-facing data is essential in the digital era

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BBBen BridgewaterManchester Academic Health Science Centre

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Policy review examines public outcome reporting across surgical specialties, indicating transparency initiatives aim to improve care quality despite clinical controversy.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the rationale, historical origins, and international evidence regarding the public reporting of individual surgeon outcomes.
  • Narrative policy analysis evaluating the implementation of the consultant outcomes publication programme across 13 surgical specialties in the UK.
  • Review of recommendations from major health inquiries, including the Bristol Public Inquiry (2001) and the Mid Staffordshire inquiry.
  • Comparative assessment of long-term public reporting evidence and database studies from US programs initiated in New York State.
  • Surgeon-level reporting originated from independent inquiry recommendations to restore public trust and transparency following clinical failures rather than punitive government directives.
  • Evidence from long-standing US and UK registries indicates complex quality improvement outcomes, with lower-level database studies addressing unintended consequences such as risk-averse case selection.

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Ben Bridgewater (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f69204c2e2af4931440731https://doi.org/10.1308/147363515x14134529302623
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