Background Emergency general surgery conditions are often thought of as being too acute
for the development of standardized approaches to quality improvement. However, process …

Background Quality of care measured by adverse events cannot address errors of process
that have no adverse outcomes. The aim of this study was to determine whether process …

Background The processes of benchmarking, benchmark data comparative analysis, and
study of best practices are distinctly different. The study of best practices is explained with an …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase efficiency in ORs without affecting quality of
care by improving the workflow processes. Administrative processes independent of the …

Background Surgical care is a cost-effective intervention with major public health impact.
Yet, five billion people do not have access to surgical and anesthesia care. This …

Background: As the cost of health care continues to rise, the role of medical providers has
evolved to include the duties of an operations manager. Two theories of operations …

Background Acute gallstone disease is the highest volume Emergency General Surgical
presentation in the UK. Recent data indicate wide variations in the quality of care provided …

This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics focuses on Quality Improvement and Implementation
Science, with topics including: Applying implementation science principles to perioperative …

BACKGROUND Patients managed nonoperatively have been excluded from risk-adjusted
benchmarking programs, including the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National …

Objectives: Industrial management principles could be used to improve the quality and
efficiency of health care. In this study, we have evaluated the effects of a process …