The American College of surgeons, minimum standards for hospitals, and the provision of high-quality laboratory services

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 704-717

  Wright, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CANADA; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; COLLEGE; EXPECTATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; JOINT; MARKETING; MEDICINE; NEW YORK; PATHOLOGY; SURGEON; ART; HISTORY; LABORATORY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018317551     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0348-HP     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. Kernahan PJ. "A condition of development": muckrakers, surgeons, and hospitals, 1890-1920. J Am Coll Surg. 2008;206(2):376-384.
2. Stevens R. American Medicine and the Public Interest: A History of Specialization. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1971.
3. Burrow JG. Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era: The Move Toward Monopoly. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1979
4. Davis L. Fellowship of Surgeons: A History of the American College of Surgeons. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons; 1960.
5. Nahrwold DL, Kernahan PJ. A Century of Surgeons and Surgery: The American College of Surgeons 1913-2012. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons; 2012.
6. Mallon B. Ernest Amory Codman: The End Result of a Life in Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders; 2000.
7. Reverby S. Stealing the golden eggs: Ernest Amory Codman and the science and management of medicine. Bull Hist Med. 1981;55(2):156-171.
8. Neuhauser D. Ernest Amory Codman, M. D., and end results of medical care. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 1990;6(2):307-325.
9. Stevens R. In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY,: Basic Books, 1989.
10. Codman EA. A Study in Hospital Efficiency, as Demonstrated by the Case Report of the First Five Years of a Private Hospital. Boston, MA: Thomas Todd Co; 1918.
11. Crenner C. Codman, Ernest Amory: American national biography online. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02670-print.html. Updated October 2007. Accessed June 6, 2016.
12. McLendon WW. Ernest A. Codman, MD (1869-1940), the end result idea, and the product of a hospital: the challenge of a man ahead of his time and perhaps ours. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1990;114(11):1101-1104.
13. Rosenberg CE. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System. New York, NY: Basic Books; 1987.
14. Vogel MJ. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston 1870-1930. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 1980.
15. Starr P. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York, NY: Basic Books; 1982
16. Rees JV. The orderly use of experience: pragmatism and the development of hospital industry self-regulation. Regul Gov. 2008;2(1):9-29.
17. No authors listed. Joint Commission. https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-Commission. Accessed June 8, 2016.
18. No authors listed. Concerning hospital standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1919;29:113-116.
19. No authors listed. Chronological statement of hospital standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1920;30:437-440.
20. Bowman JG. Endowment of American College of Surgeons. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1916;22:116-117.
21. Bowman JG. Report of the director. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1916;23:744-747.
22. No authors listed. Flexner report. https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner-Report. Accessed on June 11, 2016.
23. American College of Surgeons. Hospital standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1921;32(5):469-475.
24. American College of Surgeons. Hospital standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1921;33:581-583.
25. Catholic Hospital Association of the United States. Our history, https://www.chausa.org/about/about/our-history. Accessed June 11, 2016.
26. American College of Surgeons. Gift of $75, 000 from the Carnegie Corporation: municipal hospitals of New York City approve standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1920;30:436.
27. Martin FH. Hospital standardization, its inception, development, and progress in five years. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1922;34(1):133-142.
28. American College of Surgeons. Report of hospital standardization for the year 1924 up to October 1. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1924;39:676-700.
29. No authors listed. Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern dies at 74. Hospitals. 1956;30(4):88-94.
30. Wright JR Jr. The development of the frozen section technique, the evolution of surgical biopsy, and the origins of surgical pathology (William Osler Medal Essay). Bull Hist Med. 1985;59(3):295-326.
31. Wright JR Jr. The politics underlying the provision of pathology and laboratory services in the United States during the Roaring Twenties. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016;140(9):983-991.
32. Wright JR Jr. The 1917 New York biopsy controversy: a question of surgical incision and the promotion of metastases. Bull Hist Med. 1988;62(4):546-562.
33. Wright JR Jr. Louis B. Wilson. Pioneers in Pathology. Berlin, Germany: Springer. Encyclopedia of Pathology Series. van den Tweel JG, ed. In press.
34. Wright JR Jr, Baskin LB. Pathology and laboratory medical support for the American Expeditionary Forces by the US Army Medical Corps during World War I. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2015;139(9):1161-1172.
35. Gal AA, Cagle PT. Naissance of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: a critical analysis of the January 1926, volume 1 issue. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016;140(10):1132-1139.
36. American College of Surgeons. Standardization of clinical laboratories. Bull Am Coll Surg. 1924;8(3):14.
37. Wood FC. What the profession of medicine wants in hospital-laboratory. Bull Am Coll Surg. 1917;3(1):20-24.
38. Rosenau MJ. Standardization of clinical laboratories. In: American College of Surgeons, Chicago, 10th Yearbook. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons; 1923:45-48.
39. Wright JR Jr. Founders of pediatric pathology: Ward Thomas Burdick (1878-1928) [published online ahead of print September 12, 2016]. Pediatr Develop Pathol. doi:10.2350/16-03-1786-OA.1.
40. White WD. Public Health and Private Gain: The Economics of Licensing Clinical Laboratory Personnel. Chicago, IL: Maaroufa Press; 1979.
41. Wright JR Jr. Albert C. Broders' paradigm shifts involving the prognostication and definition of cancer. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2012;136(11):1437-1446.
42. Burdick W. The American Society of Clinical Pathologists. J Lab Clin Med. 1924;9(12):873-874.
43. No author listed. Dr. Spitz's address before the Clinical Congress of Surgeons. J Lab Clin Med. 1925;11(3):207.
44. Spitz H. Pathological conferences in well regulated hospitals. Bull Am Coll Surg. 1926;10(2):41-44.
45. America Society of Clinical Pathologists. Transactions: Third Annual Convention of the America Society of Clinical Pathologists, Rochester, Minnesota. J Lab Clin Med. 1924;10(1):69-78.
46. Burdick WT. Adequate laboratory services in the modern hospital. Bull Am Coll Surg. 1924;8(1):78-81.
47. Hospital Information and Service Department, American College of Surgeons. A manual of hospital standardization. https://archive.org/details/HospitalStandarizationManual1926. Published 1926. Accessed October 15, 2016.
48. American Medical Association. Hospitals approved for intern training. JAMA. 1927;88(11):816-827.
49. Davidsohn I. The autopsy: an outline of the problem. Am J Clin Pathol. 1933;3(3):199-209.
50. MacEachern MT. A summary review of the hospital conference of the Clinical Congress of American College of Surgeons. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1924;39:137-141.
51. American Society of Clinical Pathologists. On to Washington. J Lab Clin Med. 1927;12(7):725-734.
52. American College of Surgeons. Hospital standardization. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1920;30:322-328.