ment Program (NSQIP) provides riskadjusted outcome measures for participating hospitals to use for performance improvement. This article summarizes its history and reports the two projects on postoperative respiratory complications-intubation >48 and pneumonia. It also explains the benefit of a severalhospital collaborative and describes development of a "playbook."
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