title: Quality, patient safety, and professional values.
abstract: From the time of Earnest Codman until recently, measuring and improving quality has variably been viewed as a supportive group in the hospital, or an irritating "fringe" movement in health care. A more thoughtful view of quality improvement (QI) is that it is a central tenet of surgical professionalism, and really what we signed up for when we accepted the responsibility of healing patients using surgery as our methodology. The following article uses a patient safety event to highlight the successful use of a well-known method of improving care, while engaging trainees in the principles of physician engagement, accountability, and professionalism.
authors.affiliation: Primary Children's Medical Center, 100 N Mario Capecchi Dr, Pediatric Surgery-Suite 2600, Salt Lake City, UT 84113. Electronic address: david.skarda@imail2.org.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Skarda
authors.affiliation: Primary Children's Medical Center, 100 N Mario Capecchi Dr, Pediatric Surgery-Suite 2600, Salt Lake City, UT 84113.
authors.forename: Doug
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barnhart
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010819:Physician's Role; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012945:Social Values; D013043:Specialties, Surgical / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
keywords: Change management; Patient safety; Professional values; Quality improvement; Surgical trainees