ReviewBMJ quality & safety2014
The use of report cards and outcome measurements to improve the safety of surgical care: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
Review in BMJ quality & safety, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Making Patient-reported Outcome Measures Patient-friendly: Applying "Patient-reported Outcomes Tools: Engaging Users and Stakeholders" Guidelines to a Graphical "Report Card" for Cleft Outcomes.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Postoperative Delirium: A Survey of Perceptions Among Surgical Providers.Delirium (Bielefeld, Germany) · 2026Article
- Brief report: Relationships of frailty and age with nonresponse to patient reported outcome measures.Advances in patient-reported outcomes · 2025Article
- Institution-Based Quality and Safety Improvement Initiatives in Spine Surgery: A Scoping Review.JBJS reviews · 2025Article
- Appropriateness of Care Measures: A Novel Approach to Quality.Annals of vascular surgery · 2024Article
- The Apprentice Model 2.0: Enhancement of the Apprentice Model.Behavior analysis in practice · 2023Review
- A reduction in hospital length of stay reduces costs for colorectal surgery: an economic evaluation of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in Singapore.International journal of colorectal disease · 2023Article
- Hospital spending and length of stay attributable to perioperative adverse events for inpatient hip, knee, and spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Association of body mass index with 30-day outcomes following groin hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Article
- Postoperative rehospitalization in older surgical patients: an age-stratified analysis.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2023Article
- Safety of Cubital Tunnel Release Under General versus Regional Anesthesia.Local and regional anesthesia · 2023Article
- A Narrative Review of Plastic Surgery and Climate Change: Context and Considerations.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022Article
- Article
- Using NSQIP to improve perforated appendicitis protocol and better resource allocation.Surgery in practice and science · 2022Article
- A Patient Outcomes-Driven Feedback Platform for Emergency Medicine Clinicians: Human-Centered Design and Usability Evaluation of Linking Outcomes Of Patients (LOOP).JMIR human factors · 2022Article
- The Hidden Pandemic: the Cost of Postoperative Complications.Current anesthesiology reports · 2022Review
- Preoperative opioid, sedative, and antidepressant use is associated with increased postoperative hospital costs in colorectal surgery.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Communication Training, Adverse Events, and Quality Measures: 2 Retrospective Database Analyses in Washington State Hospitals.Journal of patient safety · 2021Article
- The Effect of Feedback on Surgeon Performance: A Narrative Review.Advances in orthopedics · 2020Review
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Abstract
Postoperative adverse events occur all too commonly and contribute greatly to our large and increasing healthcare costs. Surgeons, as well as hospitals, need to know their own outcomes in order to recognise areas that need improvement before they can work towards reducing complications. In the USA, the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (ACS NSQIP) collects clinical data that provide benchmarks for providers and hospitals. This review summarises the history of ACS NSQIP and its components, and describes the evidence that feeding outcomes back to providers, along with real-time comparisons with other hospital rates, leads to quality improvement, better patient outcomes, cost savings and overall improved patient safety. The potential harms and limitations of the program are discussed.
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