Improving surgical outcomes through adoption of evidence-based process measures: Intervention specific or associated with overall hospital quality?

Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-490

  Brooke, Benjamin S ^a   Meguid, Robert A ^a   Makary, Martin A ^a,b   Perler, Bruce A ^a   Pronovost, Peter J ^a,b   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949489826     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.037     Document Type: Article

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