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Audit of patient outcomes after herniorrhaphy
D C O'Riordan1, A N Kingsnorth
1Surgical Epidemiology and Audit Unit, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|February 3, 1999
Abstract:
The efficacy of a surgical procedure is a measure of outcome when performed by specialists. The monotonous excellence of countless cohort studies bears witness to the efficacy of numerous techniques of herniorrhaphy. Effectiveness, however, is of far greater relevance to health care commissioners than efficacy. Audit is an instrument of effectiveness and can be further developed to study cost-effectiveness where outcomes do not differ greatly.