@article{ETD, recid = {2903}, author = {Murphy, Elizabeth}, title = {Building a local surgical lexicon for quality improvement: the operative report extraction tool}, publisher = {Oregon Health and Science University}, school = {M.B.I.}, address = {2015}, number = {ETD}, abstract = {The US leads all other industrialized nations in health care expenditures, now at almost 18% percent of our gross domestic product (GDP), yet healthcare quality in the U.S. is not significantly better than in countries that spend much less.1 Surgical costs are a major driver of US health care costs. An estimated 29% of the healthcare portion of GDP is devoted to surgical costs and this does not include the costs of surgery–related disability or loss of productivity related to poor surgical outcomes.}, url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/2903}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/M49022JC}, }