Practicing surgeons lead in quality care, safety, and cost control

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 239, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 752-762

  Shively, Eugene H ^b   Heine, Michael J ^b   Schell, Robert H ^b   Sharpe, J Neal ^b   Garrison, R Neal ^b   Vallance, Steven R ^b   DeSimone, Kenneth J S ^b   Polk Jr , Hiram C ^a   Jones, R Scott ^b   Grover, Frederick L ^b   Burns, R Phillip ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; DIABETIC FOOT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; GOVERNMENT; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MELANOMA; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER; SURGEON; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST CONTROL; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442709116     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000128301.67780.d7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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