Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1093-1102.e1 , December 2007

A regional registry for quality assurance and improvement: The Vascular Study Group of Northern New England (VSGNNE)

Presented at the Sixty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Baltimore, Md, Jun 9, 2007.

  • Jack L. Cronenwett, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sections of Vascular Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Jack L. Cronenwett, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Vascular Surgery, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756.
    • ,
  • Donald S. Likosky, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Surgery and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.
    • ,
  • Margaret T. Russell, MBA, MS

      Affiliations

    • Sections of Vascular Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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  • Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
    • ,
  • Andrew C. Stanley, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
    • ,
  • Brian W. Nolan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sections of Vascular Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
    • ,
  • VSGNNE

Received 15 June 2007 ,Accepted 19 August 2007.

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 Competition of interest: none.

 Additional material for this article may be found online at www.jvascsurg.org.

 Supported in part by a grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

PII: S0741-5214(07)01342-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.08.012

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1093-1102.e1 , December 2007

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