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The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) was started in the American Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In the mid-1980s the VHA was criticized for their high operative mortality.
Strong for Surgery was developed and launched in May 2012 by the Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTAIN) based in Seattle and informed by data from the Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program. [3] In 2015, the program transitioned to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and became an ACS Quality Program in 2016. [3]
The Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP) is a clinician-led, performance benchmarking and quality improvement (QI) registry for surgical and interventional procedures. [ 1 ] SCOAP was established in 2005 through a grassroots effort of Washington State's surgical community led by David Flum, MD, MPH, and the state chapter of the ...
Collaboration between numerous professional organizations served as the driving force behind the creation of the NAPRC and its standards. [8] To create the new standards and address the disparities between treatment in Europe and the U.S., the OSTRiCh (Optimizing Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer) Consortium was created by the American College of Surgeons and its Commission on Cancer (CoC ...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons (2013). Bensley, Rodney P., et al. "Open repair of intact thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program." Journal of Vascular Surgery (2013). Buck Dominique B., et al. "Endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms."
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a professional medical association for surgeons and surgical team members, founded in 1913. [5] It claims more than 90,000 members in 144 countries. [ 6 ]
The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) partnership is an American multi-year national campaign to substantially reduce surgical mortality and morbidity through collaborative efforts between healthcare organizations. The campaign began in August 2005 with the original goal of reducing the national incidence of surgical complications by 25% ...
The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) was initiated in 2008 by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Its aim is to provide risk-adjusted data for the purpose of reducing variability in adult trauma outcomes and offering best practice guidelines to improve trauma care. TQIP makes use of national data to allows hospitals ...