In recent decades, the expansion of health services research has created an opportunity to crate salient, evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. However, for many aspects of care, incorporation…
Patient-reported outcomes serve as an essential and perhaps more relevant means for assessing patients’ response to treatment than clinical measures alone. Many of the procedures performed in plastic surgery are…
Satisfaction with appearance and improved quality of life are key outcomes for patients undergoing facial aesthetic procedures. The FACE-Q is a new patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument encompassing a suite of…
Evidence-based medicine is analyzed from its inception. This article takes the reader through the early formation of scientific medicine that has evolved into the multipurpose tool it has become today….
Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS, Editor Andrea L. Pusic, MD, MHS, FRCSC, Editor It is truly an honor for us to serve as editors of this volume on Outcomes for…
The two forces that have driven the increase in accreditation of outpatient ambulatory surgery centers (ASC’s) in the United States are reimbursement of facility fees by Medicare and commercial insurance…
The article explores the historical development of private accreditation of ambulatory surgery in the United States. It documents the relationship with the emergence of Medicare and the migration of surgery…
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are being asked to use a safe surgical checklist in 2012 and to report that it has been used in 2013. Checklists should focus on communication…
Identifying those patients with the highest risk leads to the greatest success in reducing postoperative nausea and vomiting by modifying the anesthetic plan to decrease baseline risk, and implementing the…
Although Internet-based quality assurance and peer review data have demonstrated the safety of procedures performed in the outpatient setting through the analysis of outcomes, the future of patient care will…
