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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 ...
To that end, Congress passed Public Law 99-166 in December 1985 which mandated the VHA to report their outcomes in comparison to national averages and the information must be risk-adjusted to account for the severity of illness of the VHA surgical patient population. In 1991 the National VA Surgical Risk Study (NVASRS) began in 44 Veteran's ...
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]
Using the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database over 59,000 patients were included in the study with over 53,000 in the laparoscopic arm and ...
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 ...
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."
Stanley is recalling 2.6 million mugs sold in the U.S. after the company received dozens of consumer complaints, including some users who reported getting burned and requiring medical attention ...
Dementia is a devastating condition that impacts up to 10 percent of older adults. And while there's no cure, getting diagnosed early can help patients get on a treatment plan and families prepare ...