Volume-Outcome Relationships in Neurosurgery

Oct 12, 2017 by in NEUROSURGERY Comments Off on Volume-Outcome Relationships in Neurosurgery

For a variety of neurosurgical conditions, increasing surgeon and hospital volumes correlate with improved outcomes, such as mortality, complication rates, length of stay, hospital charges, and discharge disposition. Neurosurgeons can…

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Cost-Effectiveness Research in Neurosurgery

Oct 12, 2017 by in NEUROSURGERY Comments Off on Cost-Effectiveness Research in Neurosurgery

Cost and value are increasingly important components of health care discussions. Despite a plethora of cost and cost-effectiveness analyses in many areas of medicine, there has been little of this…

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Quality Improvement Tools and Processes

Oct 12, 2017 by in NEUROSURGERY Comments Off on Quality Improvement Tools and Processes

The Model for Improvement and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle is a popular quality improvement (QI) tool for health care providers to successfully lead QI projects and redesign care processes. This tool…

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Errors in Neurosurgery

Oct 12, 2017 by in NEUROSURGERY Comments Off on Errors in Neurosurgery

Medical errors are common and dangerous, estimated to cause over 400,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. The field of neurosurgery is not immune to these errors, and…

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Quality Improvement in Neurosurgery

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John D. Rolston, MD, PhD, Editor Seunggu J. Han, MD, Editor Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD Editor Health care workers want to provide the best care they can, and patients demand…

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Quality Improvement in Neurosurgery

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NEUROSURGERY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA www.neurosurgery.theclinics.com Consulting Editors RUSSELL LONSER ISAAC YANG April 2015 • Volume 26 • Number 2 Related posts: Quality Improvement in Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Tools and…

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