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Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative utilizes reliable data and hospital partnerships to improve care
In 2004, at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) conference in Boston, Joseph B. Cofer, MD, FACS, professor of surgery and the surgery residency program director at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, saw Darrell "Skip" Campbell, Jr., MD, chief medical officer at the University of Michigan Health System, talk about a successful new surgical collaborative that he had organized for hospitals within the state. At the time, the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative had just formed with 16 hospitals using the ACS' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP).
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