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Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research

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Editors:
  1. Justin B. Dimick

    1. Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery, Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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  2. Caprice C. Greenberg

    1. Associate Professor of Surgery, WARF Professor of Surgical Research Director, Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research (WiSOR), Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

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  • Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research is a handy, portable text which offers practical guidance on developing a career within surgical education
  • Written by expert authors from around the world who are members of the Association for Academic Surgery
  • Contains full color illustrations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Success in Academic Surgery (SIAS)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Main Research Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Introduction to Health Services Research

      • Justin B. Dimick, Caprice C. Greenberg
      Pages 3-8

    3. Comparative Effectiveness Research

      • George J. Chang
      Pages 9-20

    4. Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery

      • Philip P. Goodney
      Pages 21-36

    5. Health Policy Research in Surgery

      • Justin B. Dimick, Terry Shih, Andrew M. Ryan
      Pages 37-45

    6. Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s Not All Black and White

      • Diane Schwartz, Adil Haider
      Pages 47-61

    7. Measuring Health Care Quality in Surgery: Strategies, Limitations, and Currently Available Initiatives

      • Ryan P. Merkow, Karl Y. Bilimoria
      Pages 63-74

    8. Using Data for Local Quality Improvement

      • Sandra L. Wong
      Pages 75-81

  3. Emerging Areas of Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Implementation Science and Quality Improvement

      • Lillian S. Kao
      Pages 85-100

    3. Understanding and Changing Organizational Culture in Surgery

      • Amir A. Ghaferi
      Pages 101-108

    4. Assessing Patient-Centered Outcomes

      • Arden M. Morris
      Pages 109-117

    5. Studying What Happens in the OR

      • Lane Frasier, Caprice C. Greenberg
      Pages 119-131

    6. Collaborative Quality Improvement

      • Jonathan F. Finks
      Pages 133-150

  4. Tools of the Trade

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Large Databases Used for Outcomes Research

      • Terry Shih, Justin B. Dimick
      Pages 153-166

    3. Methods for Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies

      • Kristin M. Sheffield, Taylor S. Riall
      Pages 167-182

    4. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: A Clinical Exercise

      • Melinda A. Gibbons
      Pages 183-194

    5. Medical Decision-Making Research in Surgery

      • Clara N. Lee, Carrie C. Lubitz
      Pages 195-204
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About this book

Surgical education is a rapidly expanding area of surgical research and career interest, and as the  Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses (www.aasurg.org) and International courses offer more and more specialty tracking there is a greater need for an accompanying textbook to supplement the material presented in the courses.   Success in Academic Surgery:  Health Services Research is a unique and portable handbook that focuses on clinical trials. It includes new educational materials which are necessary to address: (1) the rapid evolution and rise of novel research methodologies in basic science and clinical/educational research and (2) the changing environment for academic surgeons.   Success in Academic Surgery:  Health Services Research is a valuable text for medical students, surgical residents and others considering a career within surgery.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery, Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Justin B. Dimick

  • Associate Professor of Surgery, WARF Professor of Surgical Research Director, Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research (WiSOR), Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

    Caprice C. Greenberg

About the editors

Justin Dimick, MD, MPH is the current AAS Secretary. He is Assistant Professor of Surgery, the Chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, and the Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. He completed surgical residency at the University of Michigan and a fellowship in health services research at Dartmouth. He has an active health services research program and serves as Director of Policy Research at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy. His research is supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and National Institutes of Health. His research aims to develop better measures of hospital quality and evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for improving surgical care. He has more than 100 peer reviewed publications, including papers in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and Health Services Research.

Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH is the current AAS Representative to and the President of the Surgical Outcomes Club. She is Associate Professor of Surgery, the WARF Professor of Surgical Research, and the Director of the Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program at the University of Wisconsin. She obtained her medical degree at the University of Chicago, completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, obtained an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at Dana-Farber/Partner Cancer Center in Boston. The overall emphasis of Dr. Greenberg’s research program is on performance and safety in surgical care, comparative effectiveness research and qualitative research, particularly in relation to patient and provider interactions. She has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and National Institutes of Health.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research

  • Editors: Justin B. Dimick, Caprice C. Greenberg

  • Series Title: Success in Academic Surgery

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4718-3

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4718-3Published: 10 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2194-7481

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-749X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Surgery, Medical Education

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