The study, titled “Accelerating the Pace of Surgical Quality Improvement: The Power of Hospital Collaboration,” analyzed quality outcomes for surgical patients in 16 hospitals that participated in the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative. Hospital participants agreed to pool data and share information that would help them assess best practices for improved patient outcomes.
Results show that the Michigan hospitals reduced the number of surgical complications by approximately 10 percent, while the rest of the country in that same time period saw no significant change in complication rates, according to the study.
Read the abstract of “Accelerating the Pace of Surgical Quality Improvement: The Power of Hospital Collaboration.”
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