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Becker’s Spine Review Interviews Dr. Michael Vitale, Others on 3rd Annual Spine Surgery Safety Summit
Dr. Michael Vitale on 3rd spine surgery safety summit: "The appetite for information regarding safety in spine surgery is seemingly endless." Excerpt from Becker's Spine Review | Written by Megan Wood | May 14, 2018 Back in 2012, Michael Vitale, MD, chief of pediatric spine and scoliosis surgery at New York City-based Read More...
Safety in Spine Surgery Summit Attracted a National Audience to Learn About Safety Advances
The Safety in Spine Surgery project was thrilled to have hosted the 3rd Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on Friday, April 20, 2018 at NewYork-Presbyterian Read More...
Spine Pay for Performance (P4P) Approach
Surgical site infections (SSI) following spine instrumentation surgery is associated with increased morbidity and healthcare costs. Despite the development of consensus-based best practices to prevent surgical site infection, there is still considerable variation in minimizing modifiable risk factors. The Read More...
Team Approach to Spine Surgery
Without doubt, the impact of complications like surgical site infection (SSI) can have a tremendous burden on patients, their families, surgeons, hospitals, and society as a whole. As with most complications in healthcare, SSI should be thought of as the result of a combination of host, technique, systems and Read More...
Surgeon Athletes–Lessons from Cycling
How Lessons from Cycling Can Inform Efforts at Continuous Improvement: A recent conversation with an avid cycler helped me draw interesting parallels between how sport and the pursuit of skill so often intersects with our mission to make care better Read More...
Why Organize the Safety in Spine Surgery Summit?
One of the questions I often received prior to the first annual spine safety summit in 2016 is “why organize another Spine Surgery conference?” My answer is inevitably, “how could we not?” The time could not be more urgent. At every talk I give, I always like to put the Read More...
Checklists–Bringing Surgery on Par with Aviation
Developing the Wrong Site Surgery Checklist: Far too often, healthcare fails to provide the level of reliability that is expected around a patient’s sense of quality. Even meeting quality and safe patient care 99.9% of the time may not be Read More...
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