How Good Is Good? Benchmarking and the Quest for Quality Improvement in Liver Transplantation

Madhukar S Patel^{1

2}, Ryutaro Hirose³, Parsia A Vagefi^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
⁴ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Madhukar S Patel et al. Ann Surg. 2018 Mar.

. 2018 Mar;267(3):426-427.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002551.

Madhukar S Patel^{1

2}, Ryutaro Hirose³, Parsia A Vagefi^{1

2

4}

¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
⁴ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

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Defining Benchmarks in Liver Transplantation: A Multicenter Outcome Analysis Determining Best Achievable Results.
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