Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

ASO Author Reflections: Unplanned Return to the Operating Room: Implementing a Specialty-Specific NSQIP in Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Surgery with Free Flap Reconstruction

  • ASO Author Reflections
  • Published:
Annals of Surgical Oncology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Prasad KG, Nelson BG, Deig CR, Schneider AL, Moore MG. ACS NSQIP risk calculator: an accurate predictor of complications in major head and neck surgery? Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016;155(5):740–2.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Vosler PS, Orsini M, Enepekides DJ, Higgins KM. Predicting complications of major head and neck oncological surgery: an evaluation of the ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018;47(1):21.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Birkmeyer JD, Shahian DM, Dimick JB, et al. Blueprint for a new American college of surgeons: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Am Coll Surg. 2008;207(5):777–82.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Lewis CM, Aloia TA, Shi W, et al. Development and feasibility of a specialty-specific National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP): the head and neck-reconstructive surgery NSQIP. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck surg. 2016;142(4):321–7.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Tam S, Weber RS, Liu J, et al. Evaluating unplanned returns to the operating room in head and neck free flap patients. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07675-3.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Cohen ME, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY, et al. Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. J Am Coll Surg. 2013;217(2):336–346.e331.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Samantha Tam MD, MPH, Randal S. Weber MD & Carol M. Lewis MD, MPH

Authors
  1. Samantha Tam MD, MPH
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Randal S. Weber MD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Carol M. Lewis MD, MPH
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Carol M. Lewis MD, MPH.

Ethics declarations

Disclosure

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

ASO Author Reflections is a brief invited commentary on the article, “Evaluating Unplanned Returns to the Operating Room in Head and Neck Free Flap Patients,” Ann Surg Oncol (2019). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07675-3.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Tam, S., Weber, R.S. & Lewis, C.M. ASO Author Reflections: Unplanned Return to the Operating Room: Implementing a Specialty-Specific NSQIP in Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Surgery with Free Flap Reconstruction. Ann Surg Oncol 27, 449–450 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07978-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07978-5

Search

Navigation