J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 119(1): 12-17, 2018

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ACTIVITIES OF THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Since the late 1990s, reductions in deaths related to cardiac surgery have drawn attention in Japan and abroad. The Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (JSCVS) is an academic organization, but recommends external members to sit on in-hospital investigation committees for medical accidents in cardiovascular surgery from the standpoint of a professional organization, for which it set up the Medical Safety Management Committee.
In 2001, the Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery (JBCVS) was established jointly by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, JSCVS, and Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery. The JBCVS emphasizes training performance in surgical skills in addition to expert knowledge on cardiovascular surgery. It is one of the subspecialty boards under the Japanese Board of Surgery and emphasizes cooperation between both surgical board systems. The National Clinical Database (NCD) and Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database (JCVSD) can be used to submit surgical records for approval application.
To improve the quality of cardiovascular surgery, the JSCVS has established the Database and Medical Quality Committee. The NCD and JCVSD have substantial feedback functions, and it is possible to benchmark surgical outcomes at their own hospitals. Some executive councilors of the JSCVS visited several hospitals where there was room for improvement and proposed appropriate measures at mortality conferences.

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