New approaches to the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: the American College of Surgeons experience

Abstract: In honor of the seminal contributions of Dr. Shukri Khuri to the foundation and development of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), a review of recent work and new directions within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) NSQIP is presented, according to the following outline: [I] recent work [II] potential existing limitations of NSQIP [III] directions underway for the future [IV] additional initiatives and topics. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]