World Journal of Surgery

, Volume 40, Issue 12, pp 3095–3096 | Cite as

MERCI for Improving Quality of Surgical Care at No Cost

Letter to the Editor
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Keywords

Postoperative Morbidity Morbidity Rate Cost Difference Business Case Wide Adoption 
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Notes

Compliance with ethical standards

Conflict of interest

Dr. Michard has no conflict of interest to declare in relation to the present submission. He has been a consultant for Pulsion Medical Systems, Dixtal, Hamilton Medical and UP-MED, and an employee (VP Global Medical Strategy) of Edwards Lifesciences. He is the founder and managing director of MiCo Sàrl, a consulting firm providing services to medtech companies and digital heath startups, and a partner at Ryan-Kay.

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Copyright information

© Société Internationale de Chirurgie 2016

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.MiCo SarlDenensSwitzerland

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