title: Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XXIII: Bypass Leg Surgery.
abstract: The efforts of the Vascular Quality Initiative of the Society for Vascular Surgery and its regional groups, including the Vascular Study Group of New England, have been very helpful in furthering medical knowledge in multiple areas of vascular surgery and hopefully in improving quality and safety. One of the areas focused on has been leg bypass surgery. The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program has also provided information relevant to leg bypass surgery quality improvement, but there are differences between this program and that from the Vascular Quality Initiative.
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012449:Safety; D058017:Vascular Grafting / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods*