• World Neurosurg · Oct 2015

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    Neurosurgical Quality Metrics: Seeking the Right Question.

    • James Richard Bean.
    • Baptist Health Medical Group, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Electronic address: jbeanlex@gmail.com.
    • World Neurosurg. 2015 Oct 1;84(4):891-3.

    AbstractQuality of care measurement was a late addition to managed care. As a small specialty, neurosurgery quality of care metrics have a low priority for Medicare and other health care payers. Frequency of complications of glioma surgery derived from a large administrative database can be used as a quality measure, but the results may be inaccurate and inadequate. Prospective voluntary outcome registries offer a better alternative.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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