TY - JOUR
T1 - Transplant certification and quality assessment
T2 - Time to take the front line?
AU - Tuttle-Newhall, Janet
AU - Lentine, Krista
AU - Axelrod, David
AU - Ware, Landon
AU - Milton, Jennifer
AU - Schnitzler, Mark
PY - 2013/9/1
Y1 - 2013/9/1
N2 - In the beginning of the past decade, a series of highly publicized events led the general public to question the ability of the transplant community to effectively police itself. Common to the events was the perception that insufficient regulation of the transplant community allowed both unintentional errors and, rarely, purposeful violations of policy, to affect the safety and justice of organ allocation and transplant practice. The goal of this article is to discuss the resulting regulatory responses to these events and to highlight one transplant center's experience with the current external review process. The potential benefits of using process control charts to prospectively monitoring a center's outcomes, as well as the benefits of implementing procedures that ensure the quality of publically reported data, are described. Specifically, the critical need for each center to understand the components, limitations, and implications of public outcome reporting and to define processes that promote real time self-evaluation and quality improvement are demonstrated.
AB - In the beginning of the past decade, a series of highly publicized events led the general public to question the ability of the transplant community to effectively police itself. Common to the events was the perception that insufficient regulation of the transplant community allowed both unintentional errors and, rarely, purposeful violations of policy, to affect the safety and justice of organ allocation and transplant practice. The goal of this article is to discuss the resulting regulatory responses to these events and to highlight one transplant center's experience with the current external review process. The potential benefits of using process control charts to prospectively monitoring a center's outcomes, as well as the benefits of implementing procedures that ensure the quality of publically reported data, are described. Specifically, the critical need for each center to understand the components, limitations, and implications of public outcome reporting and to define processes that promote real time self-evaluation and quality improvement are demonstrated.
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U2 - 10.7182/pit2013193
DO - 10.7182/pit2013193
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23996938
AN - SCOPUS:84883434504
SN - 1526-9248
VL - 23
SP - 206
EP - 212
JO - Progress in Transplantation
JF - Progress in Transplantation
IS - 3
ER -