BookRachel R. Kelz, Sandra L. Wong, editors.
Contents:
1. Quality Improvement in Surgery
2. The science of quality improvement
3. Measuring Surgical Quality
4. Are you capable of providing high quality care?
5. Surgical Quality Improvement: Local quality improvement
6. How to address a quality problem
7. Barriers and pitfalls in quality improvement
8. Conflict Resolution
9. Teaching quality improvement
10. Is 'quality science' human subjects research?
11. Academic careers in quality improvement
12. National Quality Improvement: Federal Regulation, Public Reporting, and the Surgeon
13. The public perception of quality improvement in surgery.