title: Neurosurgical Quality Metrics: Seeking the Right Question.
abstract: Quality of care measurement was a late addition to managed care. As a small specialty, neurosurgery quality of care metrics have a low priority for Medicare and other health care payers. Frequency of complications of glioma surgery derived from a large administrative database can be used as a quality measure, but the results may be inaccurate and inadequate. Prospective voluntary outcome registries offer a better alternative.
authors.affiliation: Baptist Health Medical Group, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Electronic address: jbeanlex@gmail.com.
authors.forename: James Richard
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bean
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Craniotomy; Glioma; National Inpatient Sample; Risk prediction