Key result
Individualized feedback helps surgeons improve practice quality without harming their professional reputation.
Why the study?
There are relatively few means for monitoring surgeons' performance quality and seeking improvement, with a relative sparsity of data on the effect of providing surgeons direct feedback on individual performance.
Does direct feedback on individual performance improve quality of practice in surgeons?
Does direct feedback on individual performance improve quality of practice in surgeons?
Individualized feedback for surgeons may lead to meaningful improvements in practice quality, though data remains sparse.
Does not yet support routine individualized surgeon feedback; leaves open its role in quality improvement.
Surgeons play a critical role in the healthcare community and provide a service that can tremendously impact patients' livelihood. However, there are relatively few means for monitoring surgeons' performance quality and seeking improvement. Surgeon-level data provide an important metric for quality improvement and future training. A narrative review was conducted to analyze the utility of providing surgeons direct feedback on their individual performance. The articles selected identified means of collecting surgeon-specific data, suggested ways to report this information, identified pertinent gaps in the field, and concluded the results of giving feedback to surgeons. There is a relative sparsity of data pertaining to the effect of providing surgeons with information regarding their individual performance. However, the literature available does suggest that providing surgeons with individualized feedback can help make meaningful improvements in the quality of practice and can be done in a way that is safe for the surgeons' reputation.
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Rankin et al. (2020) conducted a review in Surgeon performance. Individualized feedback was evaluated on Quality of practice. Providing surgeons with individualized feedback can help make meaningful improvements in the quality of practice and can be done safely for their reputation.
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