General Surgery - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Do differences in hospital and surgeon quality explain racial disparities in lower-extremity vascular amputations?

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To understand whether racial disparities in surgery for lower-extremity arterial disease are minimized by high-quality providers, or instead, differential treatment of otherwise similar patients pervades all settings. SUMMARY BACKGROUND ... Read more...

Appraising the quality of care in surgery.

30 Jul 2009 There is currently no validated measurement system available for quality of care assessment in surgery despite all of the inherent benefits of such an approach. A structured quality framework needs to be developed and incorporate measures that are ... Read more...

Health plan use of board certification and recertification of surgeons and nonsurgical subspecialists in contracting policies.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: To characterize the role of board certification in general surgeon, surgical specialist, and nonsurgical subspecialist credentialing and contracting policies and to examine possible variation among different types of health plans. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'General Surgery - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Robotic-assisted surgery. 30 Oct 2009
• Shared accountability, appropriateness, and quality of surgical care. 12 Oct 2009
• Multihospital collaborations for surgical quality improvement. 12 Oct 2009
• Presidential address: The making of a breast surgeon. 29 Sep 2009
• Do differences in hospital and surgeon quality explain racial disparities in lower-extremity vascular amputations? 30 Aug 2009
• The competent surgeon: individual accountability in the era of "systems" failure. 30 Aug 2009
• Surgical privileging and credentialing: the American College of Surgeons' perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• Commentary. 30 Aug 2009
• Position statement on further work hour restrictions: the views of current and recent trainees. 30 Aug 2009
• "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety": response of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery to the December 2008 Report of the Institute of Medicine. 30 Aug 2009
• Comment of the American Board of Surgery on the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Report, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety". 30 Aug 2009
• Resident duty hours in surgery for ensuring patient safety, providing optimum resident education and training, and promoting resident well-being: a response from the American College of Surgeons to the Report of the Institute of Medicine, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety". 30 Aug 2009
• The Trauma Quality Improvement Program of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 11 Aug 2009
• Appraising the quality of care in surgery. 30 Jul 2009
• Health plan use of board certification and recertification of surgeons and nonsurgical subspecialists in contracting policies. 30 Jul 2009
• Use of board certification and recertification in hospital privileging: policies for general surgeons, surgical specialists, and nonsurgical subspecialists. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessing surgical quality using administrative and clinical data sets: a direct comparison of the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set. 5 Jul 2009
• [Postoperative imaging of the abdomen and chest: humility and multidisciplinary approach] 29 Jun 2009
• Generalizability in rigorous surgical randomized controlled trials. 29 Jun 2009
• British surgeons' experiences of mandatory online workplace-based assessment. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'General Surgery'

Definition: A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

Descriptor UI: D013502

Alternative terms: General Surgery; Surgery, General; Surgery;

Related Mesh Headings: Surgical Procedures, Operative; Barber Surgeons;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.810.300;

History Note: 2009 (1974)

Technical Notes: SPEC only: prefer /surg with organs & dis: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.70; the surgeon & specialty go here: the surgical patient = SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE: Manual 26.15+; /instrum = SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS or SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; military surgery = MILITARY MEDICINE (IM) + GENERAL SURGERY (IM) if the specialty; DF: SURG