Value in acute care surgery, part 2: Defining and measuring quality outcomes

Samuel Wade Ross¹, Michael W Wandling, Brandon R Bruns+6

• ¹From the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (S.W.R.), Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Charlotte, North Carolina; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.W.W.), The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas; Division of Burns, Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.B., J.P.M.), University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, Texas; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (R.S.M.), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (J.W.S.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (J.J.D.), University of California San Diego, San Diego California, California; Division of General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (K.A.D.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (K.L.S.), Stanford University, Stanford, California.