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

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 198; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.026

1879-1883

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

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

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 work IIpotential existing limitations of NSQIP IIIdirections underway for the future IVadditional initiatives and topics.