Key result
This review discusses current definitions and thinking in anesthesia quality improvement, outlining recommended efforts and future opportunities to benefit patients and clinicians.
Why the study?
Quality improvement is an ongoing professional obligation that evolves in response to emerging threats to patient safety from new medications, surgical procedures, and systematic threats.
This review outlines current definitions and recommended efforts for anesthesia quality improvement at the local department level.
Quality improvement is an unending obligation in anesthesia; leaves open optimal adaptation to emerging safety threats.
Continuous improvement of quality and safety is a professional obligation of anesthesiologists and an ongoing activity of all academic departments and private practices. Quality improvement is an infinite process that is never fully complete but that instead evolves over time in response to emerging threats to patient safety from new medications, new surgical procedures, and increased recognition of systematic threats. This review discusses current definitions and thinking in anesthesia quality improvement, outlines recommended efforts at the local department level, and makes suggestions for the projects and activities most likely to benefit the anesthesia patients and clinicians of the future.
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Tung et al. (2024) conducted a review in Anesthesia quality improvement. Anesthesia quality improvement was evaluated. This review discusses current definitions and thinking in anesthesia quality improvement, outlining recommended efforts and future opportunities to benefit patients and clinicians.
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