Surgical Quality Improvement

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kelz, Rachel R. (Editor), Wong, Sandra L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Success in Academic Surgery,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Surgery.; Practice of medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Practice and Hospital Management.; Health Administration.

This unique handbook is designed for surgeons involved in personal, programmatic, institutional, regional or national QI efforts. The book highlights key quality improvement principles that relate to the care of the surgical patient. Theories as well as practical tips regarding quality improvement a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Quality Improvement in Surgery
• 2. The science of quality improvement
• 3. Measuring Surgical Quality
• 4. Are you capable of providing high quality care?
• 5. Surgical Quality Improvement: Local quality improvement
• 6. How to address a quality problem
• 7. Barriers and pitfalls in quality improvement
• 8. Conflict Resolution
• 9. Teaching quality improvement
• 10. Is 'quality science' human subjects research?
• 11. Academic careers in quality improvement
• 12. National Quality Improvement: Federal Regulation, Public Reporting, and the Surgeon
• 13. The public perception of quality improvement in surgery.