Surgical Quality Alliance
Mission and Goals
- To bring surgical specialties and anesthesiology together to define the principles of surgical patient quality measurement and develop awareness among interested parties about issues related to surgical care and quality in all surgical settings.
- To collate measures of surgical care quality, share methodologies across specialties to assist in the development of meaningful tools for quality improvement, and evaluate the use of registries.
- To advance our own knowledge, serve as a point for disseminating information among surgical specialty societies and anesthesiology on quality-related initiatives underway in the federal and private sectors, and for coordinating surgery’s response to those initiatives.
- To provide a forum for shared and coordinated efforts among the specialties so that our collective staff and resources can monitor and participate effectively in the many organizations involved in data aggregation, reporting, and the development, validation, and implementation of physician performance measures.
Leadership and Member Organizations
Online December 15, 2006