Evidence Review for the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Part I: Building Quality and Safety Resources and Infrastructure

Hu, Q. Lina; Fischer, Chelsea P.; Wescott, Annie; Maggard-Gibbons, Melinda; Hoyt, David B.; Ko, Clifford Y.

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.08.758

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“…With regard to infrastructure to promote equity, the VRC does not currently provide guidance to trauma centers. However, as part of the ACS Quality Verification Program, a non-subspecialty-specific program, infrastructure guidance focuses on institutional administrative and leadership commitment and on program scope and governance, creating a culture of patient safety and high reliability 26. Leadership commitment is essential to ensure equitable care and promoting a safe culture.…”

Section: Health Equity As a Quality Metric: The Sixth Domain Of Qualitymentioning

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“…However, as part of the ACS Quality Verification Program, a non-subspecialty-specific program, infrastructure guidance focuses on institutional administrative and leadership commitment and on program scope and governance, creating a culture of patient safety and high reliability. 26 Leadership commitment is essential to ensure equitable care and promoting a safe culture. With regard to program scope and governance, the Quality Verification Program calls for a surgical quality officer and for a surgical quality and safety committee.…”

Section: Health Equity As a Quality Metric: The Sixth Domain Of Qualitymentioning

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Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery

Knowlton

Zakrison

Kao

et al. 2023

Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

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Health equity is defined as the sixth domain of healthcare quality. Understanding health disparities in acute care surgery (defined as trauma surgery, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care) is key to identifying targets that will improve outcomes and ensure delivery of high-quality care within healthcare organizations. Implementing a health equity framework within institutions such that local acute care surgeons can ensure equity is a component of quality is imperative. Recognizing this need, the AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee convened an expert panel entitled ‘Quality Care is Equitable Care’ at the 81st annual meeting in September 2022 (Chicago, Illinois). Recommendations for introducing health equity metrics within health systems include: (1) capturing patient outcome data including patient experience data by race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity; (2) ensuring cultural competency (eg, availability of language services; identifying sources of bias or inequities); (3) prioritizing health literacy; and (4) measuring disease-specific disparities such that targeted interventions are developed and implemented. A stepwise approach is outlined to include health equity as an organizational quality indicator.

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Section: Health Equity As a Quality Metric: The Sixth Domain Of Qualitymentioning

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Section: Health Equity As a Quality Metric: The Sixth Domain Of Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery

Knowlton

Zakrison

Kao

et al. 2023

Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

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“…To assist hospitals develop a foundation of resources and infrastructure fundamental to surgical quality improvement (QI) in all specialties and populations, a new quality program was developeddACS Quality Verification (QV) Program. 1 Twelve core quality and safety principlesdincluding standardization, safety culture, data use to drive evaluation and improvement, and resource organization and usedwere developed into "standards" for the ACS QV program. These standards align with QI efforts within and outside of surgery and should be applied by any hospital wanting to improve patient care.…”

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“…In separate publications, part I reported on institutional administrative commitment, program scope and governance, and infrastructure necessary for quality; part II reports the evidence for data surveillance and systems for QI; and part III will report on standardization, protocols, and achieving better outcomes for patient care. 1…”

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Evidence Review for the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Part II: Processes for Reliable Quality Improvement

Fischer¹,

Hu²,

Wescott³

et al. 2021

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

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After decades of experience supporting surgical quality and safety by the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Program was developed to help hospitals improve surgical quality, safety, and reliability. This review is the second of a 3-part review aiming to synthesize the evidence supporting the main principles of the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Program. Evidence was systematically reviewed for 5 principles: case review, peer review, credentialing and privileging, data for surveillance, and continuous quality improvement using data. MEDLINE was searched for articles published from inception to January 2019 and 2 reviewers independently screened studies for inclusion in a hierarchical fashion, extracted data, and summarized results in a narrative fashion. A total of 9,098 studies across the 5 principles were identified. After exclusion criteria, a total of 184 studies in systematic reviews and primary studies were included for assessment. The identified literature supports the importance of standardized processes and systems to identify problems and improve quality of care.

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In-hospital complications after trauma due to road traffic accidents

Lopes

Bustillo

Whitaker

2023

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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Evidence Review for the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Part I: Building Quality and Safety Resources and Infrastructure

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery

Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery

Evidence Review for the American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Part II: Processes for Reliable Quality Improvement

In-hospital complications after trauma due to road traffic accidents

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