Accelerating surgical quality improvement in Ontario through a regional collaborative: a quality-improvement study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) collaborative in Ontario, the Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network (ON-SQIN), was launched in January 2015. We describe its approaches to support surgical quality improvement and examine its early impact on member hospitals.

Methods

All Ontario hospitals that participated in the ON-SQIN and NSQIP were included in this quality-improvement study. The primary intervention was the introduction of the ON-SQIN, and the secondary interventions included a community of practice and access to quality-improvement resources and tools. Outcome measures included the level of quality-improvement capacity, collaborative-wide aggregate data on postoperative complications, and self-report

SUBMITTER: Jackson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182121 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature