The ACS Georgia Chapter will lead the collaborative, which will initially include nine hospitals and will grow to 14 in 2013. The goal is to share information from the ACS NSQIP database and compare surgical outcomes with hospitals in the program and across the country.
ACS NSQIP includes data on preoperative, intraoperative and 30-day outcome variables on more than 117,000 major surgical procedures.
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