Abstract
The application of principles of evidence-based medicine to neurosurgical practice is intended to improve patient outcomes. Patient quality and safety improvement efforts are designed to measure actual quality and safety metrics in practice as a way to assess and incentivize actions intended to improve quality and safety. Evidence-based neurosurgery and formal quality and safety projects are complementary, with evidence providing the scientific basis for optimizing care and QI/Safety projects providing real-time feedback on achievement of the goal of improving outcome. In this chapter, the basic principles of evidence-based practice applied to neurosurgery are reviewed and their connection to formal quality and safety efforts is highlighted.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Quality and Safety in Neurosurgery |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 97-106 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128128985 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780128128992 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Evidence-based medicine
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement