Health Policy Research in Surgery

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Policy option CMS adoption Selective referral National coverage decisions for selected procedures Refer patients to specific providers, i.e., “centers of excellence” Example: Bariatric surgery coverage linked to “center of excellence…

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The Ethical Perspective

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“When patients die in other areas of medicine the question is ‘what happened?’ However, when a patient dies during or after surgery, the question is, ‘what did you do?’”—Peter Angelos…

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Compliance to Patient Safety Culture

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Fig. 13.1 Department of Health and Human Services organizational chart [7] The federal government works in partnership with state and local agencies, national quality and safety organizations, accrediting organizations, insurers…

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Surgical Safety Checklists

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Fig. 25.1 Errors (incidents) are not the same as adverse events. Only a part of all adverse events are preventable Every undesired outcome of care is a complication, irrespective of…

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Research and Patient Safety

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Fig. 20.1 Surgery and research as the best advocates for patient safety. GCP good clinical practice, GLP good lab practice Traditional surgical research has covered a vast amount of peri-operative…

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