A monitoring tool for performance improvement in plastic surgery at the individual level

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Maruthappu, Mahiben ^b   Duclos, Antoine ^b   Orgill, Dennis ^b   Carty, Matthew J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; OPERATIVE TIME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877746307     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182865a0c     Document Type: Article

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