Examining Quality Improvement in Medicine and Business

Over the past 20 years, the medical community has been forced to invest in quality assurance programs. Surgery, in particular, has worked to develop a workforce educated in quality improvement methods and to formalize existing efforts in quality and safety in surgery. The article, “Impact of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist relative to its design and intended use: a systematic review and meta-meta-analysis” provides a nice opportunity to consider the general benefits and limitations of quality improvement programs in surgery in the context of the lessons learned in busin ess, where formal efforts in quality assurance are better established.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research