Special section: Connecting quality to compensationSurgeon compensation: “Pay for performance,” the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, the Surgical Care Improvement Program, and other considerations
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Developing a quality improvement framework for surgical care
Surgical organizations have long stood for quality and safety. They were among the first to champion peer review reporting in morbidity and mortality conferences, and were at the forefront of developing standards for the facilities in which surgical care is provided. Although surgeons continue to advance evidence-based care, surgical specialists and the research and processes they have developed have largely been omitted from recent debates on ways to report and measure healthcare quality in a
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