Quality and Outcome Assessment for Surgery

Laurence Chiche; Han-Kwang Yang; Fariba Abbassi; Ricardo Robles-Campos; Steven C Stain; Clifford Y Ko; Leigh A Neumayer; Timothy M Pawlik; Jeffrey S Barkun; Pierre-Alain Clavien

doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000006077

Quality and Outcome Assessment for Surgery

Ann Surg. 2023 Nov 1;278(5):647-654. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006077. Epub 2023 Aug 9.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University Hospital of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
² Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Virgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
⁵ Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
⁶ University of California at Los Angeles and the American College of Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA.
⁷ University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL.
⁸ The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
⁹ Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

PMID: 37555327
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006077

Abstract

This forum summarizes the proceedings of the joint European Surgical Association (ESA)/American Surgical Association (ASA) symposium on Quality and Outcome Assessment for Surgery that took place in Bordeaux, France, as part of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the ESA. Three presentations focused on a) the main messages from the Outcome4Medicine Consensus Conference, which took place in Zurich, Switzerland, in June 2022, b) the patient perspective, and c) benchmarking were hold by ESA members and discussed by ASA members in a symposium attended by members of both associations.

MeSH terms

Benchmarking*
France
Humans
Outcome Assessment, Health Care*
Quality of Life
Switzerland