Current Implementation of Quality Measures on American Society for Surgery of the Hand Touching Hands Project Outreach Trips

CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of validated quality measures across surveyed outreach sites is variable, indicating an opportunity for improvement. Standardizing documentation of quality measure implementation for each site, confirming availability of resources, increasing accountability by the visiting teams, and fostering stronger relationships with local health care, may increase quality measure implementation and improve quality health care delivery and patient safety in LMICs.CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Benchmarking the implementation of validated quality measures across hand surgical outreach trips provides an opportunity to improve the quality of health care delivered during future hand surgical outreach efforts.PMID:37656068 | DOI:10.1016/j.jhsa.2023.06.014
Source: Hand Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research