A situational overview of surgical quality and safety in 2010

American Journal of Surgery
Hiram C PolkSusan Galandiuk

Abstract

Surgical safety and quality initiatives have now moved to the front of the agenda for contemporary surgery. Sixty-two surgical specialists began to study quality and cost control in 1998, and those efforts grew into a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-funded pilot study of the Surgical Care Improvement Project in 2004. Subsequent symposia and studies evolved. A greater awareness of the issues and methods for meaningful improvement of surgical safety in nearly 25,000 specialty surgeries have been described in numerous peer-reviewed publications. Surgeon-initiated efforts have led to marked improvements in multiple specialties and in many small and large hospitals and academic training centers.

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