This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Samantha Hendren during the Postgraduate Course: Total Mesorectal Excision – Optimizing Surgery and Managing Challenges on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): ACS, American College of Surgeons, American Hernia Quality Collaborative, anastomotic leak, ASCO, bariatric, BCBS, best practice, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, breast cancer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, CoC, consensus, economic, guidelines, HACRP, healthcare, Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, low volume centers, lymph node examination, Michigan Surgery Quality Collaborative, MSQC, multidisciplinary treatment, NAPC, National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, NCDB, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, NQF, outcomes, pay-for-performance, payer, quality measures, rectal cancer surgery, sphincter preservation, staging, standards, TME, total mesorectal excision
Quality measure–33 sec
Outcomes depend on high-quality multidisciplinary treatment–3:53 Ann Surg 2014
Economic implications–7:28
Summary–9:06