AANS Neurosurgeon | Volume 24, Number 3, 2015
Editor’s Note: To read another perspective on measuring patient satisfaction, read “Counterpoint: Patient Surveys are Good.”The unsustainable cost of health care in the U.S. has led to an unprecedented shift towards value-based reform. Central to …
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A red flag is a detail in a patient’s story, a finding on physical exam, or a test result suggesting a serious condition worthy of unusual attention. From the early days of medical school, we …
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In a previous Patient Safety feature, we highlighted the importance of teamwork to promote patient safety. Continuing this important theme, we present the first part of this two-part article on the primacy of the provider-to-provider …
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The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is an important component of each neurosurgeon's practice. Successful participation should be the objective of each practicing neurosurgeon in the U.S. This article briefly describes the PQRS program and …
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There are about 9,500 air miles between Seattle and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. If you are lucky to find a direct flight, you will be in the air more than 18 hours. About the same …
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Think for a moment about the remarkably complex and diverse circumstances in which we neurosurgeons interact with, treat, care for and advocate for our patients. Indeed, this remarkable set of relationships defines what we are …
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2019 Neuroscience and Psychiatry Conference
Sept. 19-20, 2019; Singapore
2019 Managing Coding and Reimbursement Challenges
Sept. 19-21, 2019; Austin, Texas
Neurosurgery and Beyond: Addressing the Neurocognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Needs of Our Patients
Sept. 26, 2019; New York
Delivering Immunotherapy Directly to Brain Tumors
Existing Drug Could Treat Aggressive Brain Cancer
Goal-oriented Rehab Improves Recovery in Older Adults
Both Low and High Levels of Hemoglobin Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia
Heavier drinking linked to structural brain differences among young men in large brain imaging study
Honor Your Mentor (HYM) funds recognize neurosurgical luminaries, both past and present. The program started in 2014 with six funds and total pledges of $177,195 from 37 donors. Today, there are 54 HYM funds, with pledges totaling nearly $6 million from over 1,500 donors.
Today’s leaders within the world of healthcare purportedly desire quality outcomes and patient satisfaction. Both are laudable but are they related? STATLine presents some intriguing evidence to the contrary! While it may appear a little complicated statistically, the downward slope of the line demonstrates that when looking at one measure of patient satisfaction and one measure of improvement after spine surgery are inversely correlated!
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