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CLINICS IN COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 25-32Publisher
THIEME MEDICAL PUBL INC
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1673351
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colon and rectal surgery; quality improvement; outcomes; collaborative
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The Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP) is a surgeon-led quality improvement (QI) initiative developed in Washington State to track and reduce variability in surgical care. It has developed into a collaboration of over two-thirds of the hospitals in the state, who share data and receive regular benchmarking reports. Data are abstracted at each site by trained abstractors. While there has some overlap with other national QI databases, the data captured by SCOAP has clinical nuances that make it pragmatic for studying surgical care. We review the unique properties of SCOAP and offer some examples of its novel applications.
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