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Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research

Part of the Success in Academic Surgery Book Series

Editors: Dimick, Justin B.; Greenberg, Caprice C.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4718-3

ISBN: 978-1-4471-4717-6

Publisher: Springer London - Springer Journals

May 5, 2014

1 - 10 of 24 Chapters

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An Introduction to Health Services Research

Dimick, Justin B.; Greenberg, Caprice C.

Pages: 3 –8

[The scientific focus of academic surgery has changed dramatically over the past decade. Historically, surgeon-scientists engaged almost exclusively in basic science research. With the rise of health services and outcomes research, more trainees and junior faculty are pursuing research in these...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research

Chang, George J.

Pages: 9 –20

[Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is a type of research involving human subjects or data from them that compares the effectiveness of one preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, or care delivery modality model to another. The purpose of this research is to improve health outcomes by...
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Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery

Goodney, Philip P.

Pages: 21 –36

[This chapter details the origins of the study of variations in health care, with special attention to variations in the use, indications, and outcomes in surgery. We review the initial studies that demonstrated the value of this methodology, and describe how the study of variations allows...
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Health Policy Research in Surgery

Dimick, Justin B.; Shih, Terry; Ryan, Andrew M.

Pages: 37 –45

[The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of health policy research in surgery. We will begin by considering common pitfalls in conducting health policy research. We will then provide research examples from two key areas: (1) Physician and hospital payment reform and (2) Surgical...
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Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s Not All Black and White

Schwartz, Diane; Haider, Adil

Pages: 47 –61

[Over the past several years, there has been an explosion of publications describing disparities in virtually all aspects of our health care system. Surgery is no exception, with recent studies relating inequities in surgical care and outcomes based on race, gender, age, socioeconomics,...
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Measuring Health Care Quality in Surgery: Strategies, Limitations, and Currently Available Initiatives

Merkow, Ryan P.; Bilimoria, Karl Y.

Pages: 63 –74

[With an increasing focus on surgical quality, measurement systems have been developed to provide comparative feedback of performance to hospitals and individual surgeons. Moreover, many of these programs are being used for public reporting and in pay-for-participation/performance initiatives....
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Using Data for Local Quality Improvement

Wong, Sandra L.

Pages: 75 –81

[Surgical morbidity and mortality rates vary widely and suggest room for improvement. Data presented for benchmarking can be leveraged to motivate change, but current efforts to improve outcomes are somewhat limited by a lack of understanding of underlying mechanisms underlying variations....
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Implementation Science and Quality Improvement

Kao, Lillian S.

Pages: 85 –100

[Quality improvement (QI), which seeks to achieve measurable changes in processes of care and outcomes, and implementation science, which studies the incorporation of evidence into practice, use specific tools, methods, frameworks, and study designs to achieve their goals within a local setting....
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Understanding and Changing Organizational Culture in Surgery

Ghaferi, Amir A.

Pages: 101 –108

[Culture is about using a “similarity of approach, outlook, and priorities” to reach a common goal. That universal goal in healthcare and surgery is clear—provide quality, safe, efficient, patient-centered care. How best to achieve this goal, however, remains unclear. This chapter will outline...
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Assessing Patient-Centered Outcomes

Morris, Arden M.

Pages: 109 –117

[With the maturation of traditional quality research, patient advocates and policymakers increasingly are keen to expand and apply new findings in ways that measurably benefit individual patients. Over the past decade, therefore, we have seen an accelerating paradigm shift from “objective”...

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