What Influences the Effectiveness of Quality Improvement in Perioperative Care: Learning From Large Multicenter Studies in Emergency General Surgery?

Timothy J Stephens^{1

2}, Ian J Beckingham³, Jonathan Riddell Bamber⁴, Carol J Peden^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ From the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
² Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, Surgery and Critical Care, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Hepatico-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Review

Timothy J Stephens et al. Anesth Analg. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 1;134(3):559-563.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005879.

Timothy J Stephens^{1

2}, Ian J Beckingham³, Jonathan Riddell Bamber⁴, Carol J Peden^{5

6}

¹ From the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
² Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, Surgery and Critical Care, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Hepatico-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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