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Surgical Outcome Information and the Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James T. Lee
James T. Lee*
Affiliation:
DVA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
*
Associate Chief of Surgery, DVA Medical Center, One Veterans Dr, Minneapolis, MN 55417
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Abstract

There is increased media attention to healthcare outcome in the current reform atmosphere. Surgical care is a natural target for both print and electronic coverage. Hospital public relations departments often will be the interface with media representatives. Because surgical care outcome interpretation requires thoughtful evaluation of both single-patient and grouped-patient data, as well as knowledge of realistic risk-benefit ratios, it always is prudent to work with your local surgeon when the request for a story comes to the public relations department.

Type
Issues In Surgery
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 9 , September 1996 , pp. 613 - 616
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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