New approaches to the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: the American College of Surgeons experience

Bruce L. Hall, Karen Richards, Angela Ingraham, Clifford Y. Ko

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Abstract

In honor of the seminal contributions of Dr. Shukri Khuri to the foundation and development of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), a review of recent work and new directions within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) NSQIP is presented, according to the following outline:Irecent workIIpotential existing limitations of NSQIPIIIdirections underway for the futureIVadditional initiatives and topics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S56-S62
JournalAmerican journal of surgery
Volume198
Issue number5 SUPPL
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2009

Keywords

  • ACS NSQIP
  • Collaboratives
  • Imputation
  • Quality Improvement
  • Specialization
  • VA NSQIP

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