This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Conor P Delaney during the Postgraduate Course: Total Mesorectal Excision – Optimizing Surgery and Managing Challenges on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): abdominoperineal resection, accreditation, ACR, ACS, American College of Radiology, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, APR, ASCRS FRCS, bariatrics, Baylor University, Belgium, CAP, circumferential resection margin, CoC, College of American Pathologists, coloanal, colon cancer, Commission on Cancer, CRM, curriculum, education modules, experience, expertise, faculty, FRCS, functional outcomes, Fundamentals of Rectal Cancer Surgery, guidelines, hand-sewn, high stakes, imaging, internal sphincter resection, international consensus, intersphincteric, local recurrence, low anastomosis, Maintenance of Certification, MBSAQIP, MDT, MERCURY study, mesorectum, MOC, morbidity, mortality, MRI, multidisciplinary team, NAPRC, NSQIP, oncology, OSTRICH, pathology, performance measures, permanent colostomy, process measures, quality, radiology, rectal cancer, resection, Scandinavian, SEER database, specialists, specialty training, specimen, standardization, standards, staple, Strasbourg, survey, survival, Swedish, technique, TME, total mesorectal excision, tumor, U.S., United States, volume
Specialty surgeons & colostomy rates–2:41 Dis Colon Rectum 2011
Need for a rectal cx national accreditation program–8:25 Ann Surg 2014
Do standards improve outcomes?–13:23 Am J Surg 2016