Blinded peer assessment of surgical skill is feasible and can predict complication rates: A step toward measuring surgical quality

Neurosurgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  El Ahmadieh, Tarek Y ^a   Harrop, James ^b   Batjer, H Hunt ^c   Resnick, Daniel K ^c   Bendok, Bernard R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANASTOMOTIC STRICTURE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLICATION; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; NOTE; OPERATION DURATION; PEER REVIEW; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VIDEORECORDING; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SURGEONS;

EID: 84901396807     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000450232.06740.ef     Document Type: Note

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