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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Children's Surgery

Children’s Surgery Verification

Ensuring the most advanced surgical care in pediatrics

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Children’s Surgery Verification
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The American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Improvement Program, or the CSV Program, addresses the surgical care of infants and children. Our goal is to bring pediatric surgical care to every child in need in North America.

Hospitals that participate in one of our Quality Programs, including the CSV Program, earn the distinction as an ACS Surgical Quality Partner (SQP).

Why Is the CSV Program Important?

A large portion of children’s surgical care is provided in non-specialized environments. The CSV Program addresses these gaps, from relatively simple to high-risk and complex procedures. 

Specialized environments can lead to better clinical outcomes for more complex procedures:

  • Congenital heart surgery1
  • Trauma care2
  • Neonatal surgery3

For achieving optimal outcomes at the population level for some less complex pediatric surgical procedures,4 including:

  • Intussusception
  • Pyloric stenosis
  • Appendicitis under 5 years of age
References
  1. Pasquali SK, Dimick JB, Ohye RG. Time for a More Unified Approach to Pediatric Health Care Policy? The Case of Congenital Heart Care. JAMA. 2015;314(16):1689–1690. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10166

  2. Sathya C, Alali AS, Wales PW, et al. Mortality Among Injured Children Treated at Different Trauma Center Types. JAMA Surg. 2015;150(9):874–881. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1121

  3. Kastenberg ZJ, Lee HC, Profit J, Gould JB, Sylvester KG. Effect of Deregionalized Care on Mortality in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants With Necrotizing Enterocolitis. JAMA Pediatr. 2015;169(1):26–32. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2085

  4. Cosper GH, Hamann MS, Stiles A, Nakayama DK. Hospital characteristics affect outcomes for common pediatric surgical conditions. Am Surg. 2006 Aug;72(8):739-45.

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The Children’s Surgery Team is dedicated to supporting questions regarding the CSV program.