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Collaborative Quality Initiatives

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Quality improvement collaboratives were developed in many medical and surgical disciplines with the goal of measuring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. In urology, there are several such groups, including the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC), the Pennsylvania Urologic Regional Collaborative (PURC) and the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium (IRCC). In this chapter we will discuss the historic background, rationale and goals of these collaboratives, with a focus on efforts aimed at improving patient selection, intraoperative skills and techniques, and postoperative outcomes following robotic surgery.

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Amy N. Luckenbaugh, Khurshid R. Ghani & David C. Miller

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  1. Department of Urology Comprehensive Cancer Center Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Ashok K. Hemal

  2. Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA

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Luckenbaugh, A.N., Ghani, K.R., Miller, D.C. (2018). Collaborative Quality Initiatives. In: Hemal, A., Menon, M. (eds) Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20645-5_17

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