New approaches to the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: the American College of Surgeons experience

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 5 SUPPL, 2009, Pages

  Hall, Bruce L ^a   Richards, Karen ^b   Ingraham, Angela ^b   Ko, Clifford Y ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS NSQIP; Collaboratives; Imputation; Quality Improvement; Specialization; VA NSQIP

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SURGEON;

EID: 71449110289     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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