The operating room represents a high risk environment for the patient. Thyroid surgery remains a complex task whose outcome depends on the combination of poorly understood factors. Implementation of industrial quality control methods can be helpful in discovering them. For four years, we have monitored the individual and collective performance of a surgical team using control charts. Shewhart and CUSUM charts have been designed for analyzing the variations of thyroidectomy related complications over time. Their introduction immediately led to a reduction of postoperative hypocalcaemia, and then to a gradual stabilization of recurrent nerve palsy. The surgical overactivity was identified as a root cause of a temporary worsening of the team p...
Shoulder disorders represent a major health problem at the workplace. The most common shoulder disor...
Activated by chemotherapy, senescence is a suppressive response which prevents cell cycle progr...
Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI) is a possible functional complication consecutive to a lateral ankle...
Cancer remains the main cause of death in France which constitutes a major public heathcare issue. A...
In France, hematologic malignancies, which are the sixthmost common cancers, are amajor public healt...
Cancer remains the main cause of death in France which constitutes a major public heathcare issue. A...
In France, hematologic malignancies, which are the sixthmost common cancers, are amajor public healt...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
Haemophilia is a rare hereditary disorder affecting blood clotting. It needs quick care for patients...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic disabling and relapsing inflammatory disease of the colonic muc...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
In the context of the surgical treatment of cancer, counting probes of radioactivity have been intro...
Shoulder disorders represent a major health problem at the workplace. The most common shoulder disor...
Pay for performance (P4P) applied to outpatient care has emerged in the 2000s and has experienced st...
Shoulder disorders represent a major health problem at the workplace. The most common shoulder disor...
Activated by chemotherapy, senescence is a suppressive response which prevents cell cycle progr...
Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI) is a possible functional complication consecutive to a lateral ankle...
Cancer remains the main cause of death in France which constitutes a major public heathcare issue. A...
In France, hematologic malignancies, which are the sixthmost common cancers, are amajor public healt...
Cancer remains the main cause of death in France which constitutes a major public heathcare issue. A...
In France, hematologic malignancies, which are the sixthmost common cancers, are amajor public healt...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
Haemophilia is a rare hereditary disorder affecting blood clotting. It needs quick care for patients...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic disabling and relapsing inflammatory disease of the colonic muc...
Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortal...
In the context of the surgical treatment of cancer, counting probes of radioactivity have been intro...
Shoulder disorders represent a major health problem at the workplace. The most common shoulder disor...
Pay for performance (P4P) applied to outpatient care has emerged in the 2000s and has experienced st...
Shoulder disorders represent a major health problem at the workplace. The most common shoulder disor...
Activated by chemotherapy, senescence is a suppressive response which prevents cell cycle progr...
Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI) is a possible functional complication consecutive to a lateral ankle...