Quality and Patient Safety in Surgery: Clinical Applications and Critical Appraisal of a Prospective, Standardized, and Comprehensive System for Monitoring and Reporting Post-operative Adverse Events

Evaluation of quality of surgical care begins with the Donabedian triad focusing on structure, process, and outcomes. Outcomes, which are inherently patient-centered, are most easily and commonly measured, and are indeed fundamental to evaluating the quality of surgical care. Specifically, post-oper...

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Main Author: Ivanovic, Jelena
Other Authors: Seely, Andrew
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32742
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4199