How best to measure surgical quality? comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (AHRQ-PSI) and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) postoperative adverse events at a single institution

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 943-949

  Cima, Robert R ^a   Lackore, Kandace A ^a   Nehring, Sharon A ^a   Cassivi, Stephen D ^a   Donohue, John H ^a   Deschamps, Claude ^a   Vansuch, Monica ^a   Naessens, James M ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY PATIENT SAFETY INDICATORS; ALGORITHM; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS NATIONAL SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WOUND; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENTILATOR; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALGORITHMS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 80054925814     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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