Surgery care improvements. Shaving? Cold? What improves your outcome?

Posted on August 30, 2013

We doctors are always trying to make things better.  I was reading in the June 2013 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal an article on “Core Measures: Implications for Plastic Surgery.”  Core measures are things recommended by the US Department of Health Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.  They have measures to reduce the incidence of infections, blood clots, and mortality.  What do they look at?

These measures are evidenced based and validated across a diverse groups of specialties, though a few have differing opinions based on plastic surgery evidence and practices.

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Some findings which apply to plastic surgery: