Abstract
Increased national focus has been placed on care delivery processes and their effect on health care quality. At the institutional level, investigators are increasingly engaged in surgical process-of-care trials that, compared to traditional randomized treatment trials, more explicitly control and mitigate provider- and system-based risk. Process-of-care trials have the potential to improve patient care while also improving the culture of a surgical department, hospital, and system.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 177-179 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2017 |
Keywords
- Care delivery
- Integrated systems
- Outcomes
- Process measures
- Process-of-care trials
- Quality
- Randomized trials
- Risk
- Surgery
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Urology