Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adherence to intraoperative quality metrics may increase OS and recurrence-free survival after curative-intent ...

Patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans were less likely to receive cancer surgery at high-quality hospitals compared with traditional Medicare enrollees, a national retrospective cohort ...

The American College of Surgeons has recognized the UAB Department of Surgery as a Surgical Quality Partner across numerous areas of patient care. This achievement is due to UAB's participation in ...

Improving quality remains a perennial challenge for hospitals across America constantly facing cost and regulatory pressures. For more than 110 years, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has ...

The board of directors at the National Quality Forum has endorsed 24 quality measures on surgical care performed in hospitals and in outpatient facilities. The measures address a wide range of ...

Higher CMS hospital star ratings generally were associated with better surgical outcomes, but there was wide variability within each star-rating group, suggesting its utility for assessing surgical ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Ray et al 17 found that surgical quality as defined by process measures was associated with patient survival after resection for early-stage ...

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage among those undergoing cancer surgeries increased from 32% in 2016 to 46% in 2022. Medicare Advantage enrollees were less likely to undergo cancer surgery at ...