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Regional surgical quality collaborative significantly improves surgical outcomes and reduces cost
Date:1/23/2012

cording to the researchers. These improvements led to a net savings of nearly $2.2 million per 10,000 general and vascular procedures, according to the study. As ACS NSQIP collects only a sample of cases done, the implications for total costs avoided are much greater. It is estimated that 10,000 cases represents only about one fourth of the total general and vascular surgery cases done in the TSQC hospitals in 2009 and 2010. If the ACS NSQIP methodology were applied to all cases, the total costs avoided might be more than $8 million when comparing the results from 2010 with those from 2009.

According to the researchers, improvements in areas such as skin and soft tissue/wound disruption and ventilator management may be credited to the identification of a problem and rapid change in practice based upon evidence-based medicine.1 Improvements in renal and graft failure may be attributed to overall attention being focused on a problem that was uncovered through involvement in ACS NSQIP.

"While previous studies have shown that participation in quality improvement programs such as ACS NSQIP have been shown to save lives, improve health and reduce costs, the Tennessee collaborative illustrates that participation in an ACS NSQIP collaborative can accelerate those benefits and take quality improvement to a whole new level," said Oscar D. Guillamondegui, MD, MPH, FACS, lead author and associate professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville.

As the health care system seeks to find ways to reduce costs, many hospitals and health care professionals are organizing themselves into "collaboratives" to work together to share best practices. The TSQC was formed in 2008 and is led by the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (TnACS) and the Tennessee Hospital Association with funding from the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation. The TSQC consists of Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga; Vanderbilt Universi
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