Surgical Quality Improvement

This book teaches the theories and concepts behind surgical quality improvement and explains the skills and traits needed to become a high quality provider.
The editors aim to teach and inspire the reader to achieve high quality outcomes and strive for continuous improvement.

List 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.

About the author

Rachel R. Kelz, MD MSCE
Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program ACS NSQIP, Surgeon Champion Department of Surgery Center for Surgery and Health Economics University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Summary

This book teaches the theories and concepts behind surgical quality improvement and explains the skills and traits needed to become a high quality provider.
The editors aim to teach and inspire the reader to achieve high quality outcomes and strive for continuous improvement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rache Kelz (Editor), Rachel Kelz (Editor), Rachel R. Kelz (Editor), L Wong (Editor), L Wong (Editor), Rache R Kelz (Editor), Rachel R Kelz (Editor), Sandra L. Wong (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319233550
• ISBN: 978-3-31-923355-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Illustrations: IX, 136 p. 15 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Series: Success in Academic Surgery; Success in Academic Surgery
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Chirurgie, C, Medicine, Surgery, Health Administration, Medical administration & management, Practice of medicine, Practice and Hospital Management, Medical administration and management