Main description:

This book teaches the theories and concepts behind surgical quality improvement and explains the skills and traits needed to become a high quality provider.

The editors aim to teach and inspire the reader to achieve high quality outcomes and strive for continuous improvement.

Contents:

1. Quality Improvement in Surgery.- 2. The science of quality improvement.- 3. Measuring Surgical Quality.- 4. Are you capable of providing high quality care?.- 5. Surgical Quality Improvement: Local quality improvement.- 6. How to address a quality problem.- 7. Barriers and pitfalls in quality improvement.- 8. Conflict Resolution.- 9. Teaching quality improvement.- 10. Is 'quality science' human subjects research?.- 11. Academic careers in quality improvement.- 12. National Quality Improvement: Federal Regulation, Public Reporting, and the Surgeon.- 13. The public perception of quality improvement in surgery.