Summary:
‘Quality’ is a popular demand in health care. Surgeons as
professionals are consistently putting their efforts to meet
this demand. The standard and dimensions of ‘quality’ are
changing and expectations are rising along with social
reforms driven by scientific and economic growth. On the
other hand, objective assessment of care in surgical patients
is difficult and dependent on factors that are not precisely
related to surgical skills. It is rather performance of all in
the organization and sum of each and every human and
system effort. In this effort we will discuss factors related to
surgical care quality and different methods of assessment
and their limitations.
For quality surgical care, good intent, enabling environment
with organized supportive system is required with skilled
surgical team and meticulous monitoring system along the
care process.
Key words: Quality assessment (QA), surgery, evaluation,
medical audit (MA).
(J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2020; 38: 93-97)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v38i2.45634