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In the UK the Department of Health published a report earlier this year entitled ‘High Quality Care For All’ which requires that all hospitals must collect and publish surgical outcome data by 2010, including post-operative complication rates, surgical site infection rates and patient-centered quality-of-life assessments. This paper gives an overview of the outcome measures used to assess interventions...