MIS-COE

To designate, support, and promote minimally invasive spine centers of excellence through meaningful, evidence-based medicine... Excellence is defined as a state of being "superior; imminently good." To be excellent, one must show how they are better than another. In general, this requires some system of measurement. Measuring outcomes is commonplace in everyday life. For example, the avid golfer uses the handicap score to measure one's skill relative to another. Similarly, baseball uses the ERA (earned run average) to compare pitching effectiveness. Thus, excellent golfers and baseball pitchers would simply be those players who have the best scores. It is only logical that excellent surgeons would be identified as those having the best treatment scores.

Primary location: San Diego United States