The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety

PART I: PATIENT SAFETY IS QUALITY.- Defining Quality in Surgery.- Never Events.- Creating a Surgical Dashboard for Quality.- Patient-Centered Outcomes: Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Life Assessment.- Quality, Safety and Electronic Medical Records.- Leading Change: System Improvement.- Surgical Timeout and Retained Foreign Bodies-- Patient Safety in the Operating Room.- SAGES Laparoscopic Surgery Safety Checklist.- Faculty Hour: A Model for Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement.- Creating Effective Communication and Teamwork for Patient Safety.- Clinical Care Pathways.- Data Drives Quality – ACS – NSQIP.- Clinical Research Improves Patient Care.- National Patient Safety Guidelines.- PART II - UNDERSTANDING ERROR.- Taxonomy of Errors: Adverse Event/Near Miss Analysis.- Disclosure of Complications and Error.- Second Opinion and Transfer of Care.- Morbidity and Mortality Conference.- PART III - PREOPERATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT.- Preoperative Risk Assessment – Anesthesia.- Preoperative Cardiac Considerations in General Surgical Patients.- Pulmonary Effects of Obesity and Assessment for Bariatric Surgery.- Contraindications to Laparoscopy.- PART IV - COMMON COMPLICATIONS & MANAGEMENT.- Common Complications and Management.- Common Endoscopic Complications: Recognition and Management.- Energy and Energy Safety in the Operating Room.- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Complications and Management.- Antireflux Surgery for GERD.- Complications of Bariatric Surgery.- Complication in Colorectal Surgery.- Solid Organ Surgery.- Outline for Sages, handbook of safety, and improved clinical outcomes.- Video -Assisted Thoracic Surgery: Complications and Management.- Robotic Surgical Outcomes and Safety.- Complications in Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery.- NOTES: Common Complications and Management.- PART V - ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTING SAFETY & QUALITY.- Quality and Safety in American College of Surgeons.- Institute of Medicine Crossing the Quality Chasm.- Using Patient Safety Indicators as Benchmarks.- Institute for Healthcare Improvement-Best Practices.- SAGES History & Commitment To Education and Safety.- PART VI - PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.- Standardizing Surgical Education: Implications for Quality of Care.- Training Standards/Fellowship Council.- Accreditation Standards: Bariatric Surgery and Beyond.- PART VII - SAFER SURGERY THROUGH SIMULATION AND TEAMWORK.- Team Training.- Training to Proficiency.- FLS.- FES.- Simulation and OR Team Performance.- Debriefing after Simulation.- Using Simulation for Disclosure of Bad News.- Teleproctoring in Surgery.- PART VIII - MEDICAL-LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS.- Informed Consent.- Enterprise Risk Management.- Surgical Devices: Equipment malfunction, FDA reporting, Off-label use.- Video recording: Responsibility and Liability.- Limiting Medical Malpractice Exposure and Claims.- The Expert Witness and Tort Reform.- PART VIIIII – CONCLUSIONS.- Conclusion: Culture of Safety and Era of Better Practices.