3025 Individual Anesthesia Provider Performance Assessment

Achieving anesthesia provider accountability will boost OR performance.

Individual Job Performance assessment Models: A Systematic Review Study

Introduction: There are several generic and specific models to assess the individual job performance (IJP). While these methods may provide the valuable information, none of them cover the complexity and wide range of the behaviors which express the IJP. This review study aimed to identify all existing models and incorporate them to achieve a comprehensive conceptual model to assess the IJP.  ...

The impact of self-assessment on provider performance in Mali.

Improving the quality of clinical care in developing country settings is a difficult task, both in public sector settings where supervision is infrequent and in private sector settings where supervision and certification are non-existent. This study tested a low-cost method, self-assessment, for improving the quality of care that providers offer in a peri-urban area in Mali. The study was a cro...

Surgical mortality and type of anesthesia provider.

Although estimates of anesthesia-related deaths today are as low as 1 in 200,000 to 300,000 cases, questions remain about surgical patients' safety related to types of anesthesia providers. We studied the effect of type of anesthesia provider on mortality rates of Medicare patients undergoing 8 different surgical procedures. Risk-adjusted mortality rates were analyzed for 404,194 inpatients und...

Anesthesia Provider Characterizations and Resource Variation