tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 28

PHYSICIAN NOTES: You Can't Hurry Quality, Surgeons Tell Congress

Start with the basics and then work up to outcomes, they insistA group of surgical specialty organizations don't want to rush into pay for performance (P4P).The surgical groups, led by the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of General Surgeons, wrote to influential Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT) to urge a three-phase implementation. Their July 20 letter contemplates a set of five surgical quality measures, including mandating a "time out" before surgery, immediate documentation after surgery and operating on the correct body part.Once surgeons had gotten used to those measures, they could move on to more...

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