Background: Dedicated quality-improvement (QI) initiatives within health care systems are of
clear benefit, and physicians respond to financial incentivization. The Canadian health care …

Surgeons are increasingly becoming involved in quality improvement (QI) initiatives, in part,
because of pay-forperformance and national programs, such as the Surgical Care …

Since the time of Ernest Codman, surgeons have understood that the measurement of
surgical outcomes can be used for the improvement of care. While Codman gained little …

Court physicians of ancient China were paid only when the emperor remained in good
health–indeed legend has it that they lost their own lives if the emperor's health faltered. This …

Surgeons can no longer afford to distance themselves from quality improvement (QI)
initiatives given external pressures and disincentives from governing agencies as well as …

Methods We examined discharge data for patients who underwent coronary artery bypass
(CABG), hip replacement, and knee replacement at Premier hospitals and non-Premier …

Objective: In this article, we detail a unique collaboration between hospitals in Michigan and
a major third party payer, using a “pay for participation model.” The payer has made a …

Quality improvement (QI) activities have become an integral component of surgical care,
involving all levels of stakeholders from trainees up to hospital administrators. While …

Methods: ISQIC includes 21 components to facilitate QI that target the hospital, the surgical
QI team, and the perioperative microsystem. The components were developed from …

Background The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement
Program is well recognized in surgical quality measurement and is used widely in research …