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Quality Improvement and Quality Metrics

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The quality movement in medicine is not a new idea, but it has become increasingly complex and nuanced. This chapter will review the basics of quality assessment and improvement in medicine, briefly discuss the various important programs, organizations and persons, explore data sources and metrics that inform quality decisions, and discuss how culture can influence outcomes and quality improvement. This chapter will focus on providing the basic information a young surgeon new to practice would find useful for understanding quality improvement and its impact on everyday health care.

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  1. Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Carrie Y. Peterson

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    Tracy S. Wang

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Adam W. Beck

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Peterson, C.Y. (2020). Quality Improvement and Quality Metrics. In: Wang, T., Beck, A. (eds) Building a Clinical Practice. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29271-3_15

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