Allyn John, Curry Craig
Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-operative Medicine, Spectrum Healthcare Partners, Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall Street, Portland, ME 04102, USA.
Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-operative Medicine, Spectrum Healthcare Partners, Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall Street, Portland, ME 04102, USA.
Anesthesiol Clin. 2018 Jun;36(2):177-189. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2018.01.003. Epub 2018 Apr 9.
A robust quality management system (QMS) will provide value to patients, providers, and hospitals or systems by focusing on system performance. The QMS must remain independent of provider-specific measures used for privileging. Some outcome measures may be used to assess system performance; they must not be used to assess individual provider performance. All anesthesia providers, especially leaders, must be guardians of an organization's safety culture.
