title: [Monitoring and surgical quality. Status and proposal for a national strategy].
abstract: Optimisation of quality in surgery requires knowledge of outcome data, the process of care and the structure/organisation. Based upon the unique patient registration system in Denmark combined with a predominantly "single-payer" system, a proposal is made for a nation-wide system to monitor surgical outcome, followed by adjustments to the process of care/reorganisation where required within a National Surgical Board, which is represented by hospital administrators, the surgical scientific societies and the Danish Health Board.
authors.affiliation: H:S Rigshospitalet, Juliane Marie Centeret, Enhed for Kirurgisk Patofysiologi, 4074, København Ø. henrik.kehlet@rh.dk
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kehlet
mesh_terms: D003718:Denmark; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000592:standards*