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Quality of Care in Perioperative Medicine

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Quality of care in anesthesiology is the result of progressive thinking by industrial quality management and pioneers of quality management in medicine. Prevention of catastrophic perioperative complications involves meticulous tracking of perioperative events. This includes continuous monitoring of perioperative events, collecting data, implementing changes, and noticing trends in the data that can help to prevent these events from occurring. This can occur through a targeted quality improvement program implementation. A robust quality improvement system identifies underperformance either by systems, individuals, or equipment and allows for interventions before complications occur.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Science Center, University Medical Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Matthew R. Eng

  2. Town Square Anesthesia, Community First Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Tayyab Khan

  3. Department of Family Medicine, Jackson Park Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ramla Farooq

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Charles J. Fox, III

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Elyse M. Cornett

  3. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Head and Neck Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    G. E. Ghali

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Eng, M.R., Khan, T., Farooq, R. (2019). Quality of Care in Perioperative Medicine. In: Fox, III, C., Cornett, E., Ghali, G. (eds) Catastrophic Perioperative Complications and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96125-5_24

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