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Personal contact with a hospital and patients who have received treatment there offer the best opportunity to assess its quality. A certification merely shows that a quality management system has been implemented, but says nothing about the quality of the actual outcomes achieved. ⋯ There appears to be a correlation between large numbers of operations and the quality of the surgery. In this area, the physician is dependent on voluntary publication of performance reports.