Key result
Expansion of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program across the Military Health System established a surgical quality collaborative and demonstrated promising trends in surgical outcomes.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to review the development of a surgical quality collaborative in the Military Health System, initiated to improve surgical quality and reduce clinical variability.
Expansion of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program across the Military Health System has laid the foundation for a surgical quality collaborative with promising trends in outcomes.
Supports military surgical quality collaboratives; leaves open generalizability and causal outcome effects.
In an effort to improve surgical quality and reduce clinical variability, the Military Health System (MHS) expanded its participation in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to all military hospitals beginning in 2015. This expansion and a partnership with the American College of Surgeons laid the foundation for a surgical quality collaborative in the MHS. We review the history of the program in the MHS and the activities that have contributed to developing the collaborative. We also report promising trends in surgical outcomes at hospitals that were already participating in the program in 2014, when a critical MHS review identified areas for improvement in surgical care. We conclude with a discussion of possible lessons for other health systems and challenges ahead for the MHS, now that full enrollment in the program has been completed.
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Learn et al. (2019) conducted a review in Surgical care. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was evaluated on Surgical outcomes. Expansion of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program across the Military Health System established a surgical quality collaborative and demonstrated promising trends in surgical outcomes.
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