In addition to his ongoing teaching and surgical practice at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Dr. Clark has been spearheading numerous studies hinging on oncology and elderly patient wellbeing. His latest, “Feasibility of Real-time Location Systems in Monitoring Recovery after Major
Reflecting on High Quality Surgical Care
Over the last several months, I have been thinking about how we can deliver consistent, high-quality surgical care to your patients. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine produced a report titled, Crossing the Quality Chasm. In this report, they state:
What is clinical effectiveness research?
It is actually pretty simple to define clinical effectiveness research (CER) — any research that attempts to determine if something really works in health care. The Challenges of Studying CER To answer if something works can actually be very challenging.