TY - T1 - Quality of British and American Nationwide Quality of Care and Patient Safety Benchmarking Programs : Case Neurosurgery SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/309142 T3 - A1 - Reponen, Elina; Tuominen, Hanna; Korja, Miikka A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - BACKGROUND: Multiple nationwide outcome registries are utilized for quality benchmarking between institutions and individual surgeons. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether nationwide quality of care programs in the United Kingdom and United States can measure differences in neurosurgical quality. METHODS: This prospective observational study comprised 418 consecutive adult patients undergoing elective craniotomy at Helsinki University Hospital between December 7, 2011 and December 31, 2012.We recorded... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Quality of care; Patient safety; Benchmarking; UNRUPTURED INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; HOSPITAL PARTICIPATION; OPERATIVE DURATION; PATIENTS VALIDITY; RISK-FACTORS; CRANIOTOMY; OUTCOMES; TUMOR; MORTALITY; 3112 Neurosciences; 3124 Neurology and psychiatry; 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology N1 - PP - ER -