Surgery registries crucial to improving patient care, researchers say

by Anne Crawford

Monash University Central Clinical School (CCS) clinician-researchers are behind a push for the Federal Government to urgently implement strategies to overcome barriers to clinical quality registries for surgery.

Registries systematically collect data on markers of quality of care for a given procedure across multiple sites, identifying times where the outcomes for patients are outside the normal range (good or bad) by risk adjusting and then benchmarking performance.  That information is then used to inform quality improvement initiatives for patients.

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