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The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) offers data-based benchmarking and improves mortality and surgical-site infection rates.
This review highlights the importance of risk adjustment and surveillance methods, such as the NSQIP, in monitoring and improving surgical outcome quality.
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Synthesizes risk-adjusted methods for surgical outcome monitoring; leaves open optimal surveillance approaches for prospective validation.
In this expository paper, we review methods for monitoring medical outcomes with a focus on surgical quality. We discuss the importance and role of risk adjustment. We give the advantages and disadvantages of various competing surveillance methods. We provide an extensive literature review and give some ideas for future research. In addition, we describe the highly effective American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), which offers data-based benchmarking of participating hospitals and provides information on best surgical practices. A case study illustrates improvements of mortality and surgical-site infection rates based on the NSQIP approach.
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Woodall et al. (2015) conducted a review in Surgical outcomes. American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) was evaluated. The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) offers data-based benchmarking and improves mortality and surgical-site infection rates.
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