Historical Aspects of Quality in Healthcare -- Quality and Standardization of Medical Education -- The History of Quality Assessment in Spine Care -- Choice of Quality Metrics for Assessment of the Spine Patient -- Patient Reported Outcomes -- Registries in Spine Care, United States -- Registries in Spine Care, UK and Europe -- Concepts of Risk Stratification in Measurement and Delivery of Quality -- Risk Adjustment Methodologies -- Healthcare Systems in the United States -- The National Health Service (NHS) in England: Trying to Achieve Value Based Health Care -- Quality Spine Care in Australasia -- Healthcare Systems: India -- Healthcare Systems and Quality Assessment of Spine Care in Japan -- Overview of Healthcare System in China -- Conditions of Care and Episode Groups -- Aligning Healthcare Systems -- Building Quality Metrics into a Practice -- Impact of Quality Assessment on Clinical Practice, Intermountain Healthcare -- Impact of Quality Assessment on Clinical Practice, Kaiser Permanente -- How Quality is Assessed in Insurance Markets -- Centers of Excellence and Payer Defined Quality Assessment -- Reporting Quality Results -- Achieving Success in Quality Reporting.

This book provides a succinct overview of a variety of aspects of quality that is absent from other texts that cover the technical aspects of operative spine care. Readers are provided with insight and comparisons of different quality reporting systems across different health care systems, while also discussing the different strengths and weaknesses therein. The book summarizes state-of-the-art quality measurement and value assessment in spine care while reviewing quality reporting in the US and internationally. Chapters also outline how quality improvement efforts achieved success in hospital systems. Quality Spine Care: Healthcare Systems, Quality Reporting, and Risk Adjustment provides surgeons and practitioners with insight into the challenging aspects of healthcare delivery and quality assessment related to spine care.