Key result
Measuring quality in acute care surgery relies on objective outcome measures from registries, risk stratification, and increasingly, patient-reported and financial outcomes.
Why the study?
Following an overview of measuring cost in acute care surgery, this work explains in detail how quality is measured.
This review highlights the importance of objective outcome measures, risk stratification, and patient-reported outcomes in defining and measuring quality in acute care surgery.
Registry data support risk-adjusted outcomes including PROMs for quality assessment in acute care surgery; leaves open standardization and validation.
The prior article in this series delved into measuring cost in acute care surgery, and this subsequent work explains in detail how quality is measured. Specifically, objective quality is based on outcome measures, both from administrative and clinical registry databases from a multitude of sources. Risk stratification is key in comparing similar populations across diseases and procedures. Importantly, a move toward focusing on subjective outcomes like patient-reported outcomes measures and financial well-being are vital to evolving surgical quality measures for the 21st century.
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Ross et al. (2022) conducted a review in Acute care surgery. Measuring quality in acute care surgery relies on objective outcome measures from registries, risk stratification, and increasingly, patient-reported and financial outcomes.
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