Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2019;26(1):8-15

doi:10.7507/1007-4848.201809053

Quality control and assessment system in general thoracic surgery

XIE Dong 1 ; CHEN Chang 1 ; JIANG Gening 1

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Keywords

Thoracic surgery; surgery; quality control

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Quality control of general thoracic surgery contains many links including the qualification and technical conditions of medical institutions, preoperative diagnostic system, surgery, postoperative management, pathological diagnosis and follow-up. Standards of quality control should be based on evidence-based medicine, and general rules with detailed criteria. As one of the core concepts of quality control, fine management is ought to strictly follow clinical practice guideline of thoracic surgery, to be clear with quality standards of each key link in clinical pathway, and to improve the clinical quality control system that combines self-evaluation and supervision and inspection.