January 14, 2011
CHICAGO: The American College of Surgeons believes that given the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focus on improving the value of health care, the proposed value-based purchasing rule it issued on January 7 is an important step toward improving the quality of care and patient outcomes while reducing complications and the cost of care.
Trauma surgeons find elderly patients have unique needs; cite ways for trauma centers to address them.
January 25, 2011
CHICAGO: As elderly citizens represent an ever growing proportion of the population, trauma centers are being challenged to provide them with same quality of care that younger patients receive during a medical emergency. A recent study by researchers using the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Trauma Databank (NTDB) published in the January 2011 issue of Annals of Surgery reveals that trauma centers that excel in the care of severely injured young patients do not necessarily provide the same quality of care to elderly ones.
March 28, 2011
By Janice Simmons
Better distribution of surgical care throughout the U.S. could promote better health outcomes--especially with trauma related to motor vehicle crashes, one of the leading causes of death nationwide, according to researchers at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine.
Surgery in the U.S. continues to be seen as tertiary care and is mainly centered at large urban hospitals, creating an unequal distribution of surgical providers, according to a study published today in the Journal of American College of Surgeons.
Operation Patient Access organized a panel discussion to help bring into focus the increasing surgical access challenges in the United States.
Operation Patient Access is a campaign representing the surgical community, surgical patients, and providers, that aims to work collaboratively with U.S. policymakers to address the urgent issues facing access to quality surgical care.