Joint Base San Antonio, Texas (Dec. 2, 2016) -- Army medical treatment facilities are maintaining surgical safety by using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement ...

Joint Base San Antonio, Texas (Dec. 15, 2017) -- Most people don't know that Army Medicine maintains patient safety by using an outside, independent agency to directly measure surgical safety and rate ...

CHICAGO (July 26, 2015, 5 pm ET): As patient-safety and quality improvement efforts continue to gain momentum throughout health care, the need for accurate sources of information is crucial, yet the ...

Adding geriatric-specific risk factors to the blend of traditional risk factors could significantly improve the ability of surgeons to predict poor outcomes in older surgical patients, according to ...

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) Surgical Risk Calculator establishes a new threshold for assessing quality care for elderly patients ...

BOSTON: Most complications of colorectal resection procedures steadily decreased and the number of early hospital discharges increased based on a review of 10 years of data in the American College of ...

The majority of hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project improve surgical outcomes over time, and improvement continues with each year ...

A randomized, multicenter phase III trial of bevacizumab plus capecitabine as maintenance treatment after initial treatment with bevacizumab plus XELOX in previously untreated metastatic colorectal ...

Large multicenter studies comparing outcomes between TURP and photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) are sparse, with no studies having compared the influence of trainee involvement on ...

ACS NSQIP provides more accurate data than administrative data for driving surgical quality improvement in hospitals, according to two new studies. The research suggests that ACS NSQIP is a vital tool ...