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Surgical Best Practices: Clinical Care Pathways and Checklists

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The express goal of value-based quality care is to provide appropriate, effective, and enduring care that is evidence-based and patient centered. Significant variability in clinical practice often is at odds with value-based care as it promotes inequity, substandard outcomes, and increased healthcare costs. Numerous studies demonstrate reduction in variation results in improved care for patients. This chapter will explore the impact of clinical care pathways and checklists on the quality of care provided to our bariatric patients.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Dana A. Telem

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  1. Department of Surgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

    John M. Morton

  2. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer

  3. Vidant Medical Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

    Eric J. DeMaria

  4. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public, National Center for Weight and Wellness, Washington, DC, USA

    Scott Kahan

  5. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Matthew M. Hutter

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Telem, D.A. (2019). Surgical Best Practices: Clinical Care Pathways and Checklists. In: Morton, J., Brethauer, S., DeMaria, E., Kahan, S., Hutter, M. (eds) Quality in Obesity Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25173-4_12

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