Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ziewacz, John E., MD, MPH
• McGirt, Matthew J., MD
• Chewning, Samuel J., MD

Titel

Adverse Events in Neurosurgery and Their Relationship to Quality Improvement

Ist Teil von

• Neurosurgery clinics of North America, 2015-04, Vol.26 (2), p.157-165

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Adverse events are common in neurosurgery. Their reporting is inconsistent and widely variable due to nonuniform definitions, data collection mechanisms, and retrospective data collection. Historically, neurosurgery has lagged behind general and cardiac surgical fields in the creation of multi-institutional prospective databases allowing for benchmarking and accurate adverse event/outcomes measurement, the bedrock of evidence used to guide quality improvement initiatives. The National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database has begun to address this issue by collecting prospective, multi-institutional outcomes data in neurosurgical patients. Once reliable outcomes exist, various targeted quality improvement strategies may be used to reduce adverse events and improve outcomes.