A FEW ASPECTS OF PLASTIC SURGEONS’ PERFORMANCE
In spite of accreditation programs, levels of professional skills vary among plastic surgeons: there are no requirements for the diversity and number of performed surgical interventions that a surgeon can specify in his/her portfolio. Rationale for elaborating such requirements can be explored by studying service reports of private medical practices certified to provide plastic surgery services to their in- and outpatients. In the course of out study we analyzed such reports using different statistical tools, including the variation coefficient, the Kolmogorov-Smironov, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Differences were considered statistically significant at p S = -0.8, р = 0.2 and rS = -0.2, р = 0.8, respectively). Skin/soft tissue repair accounted for 51.1 % of all services provided by private medical practices. The number of post-operative treatment services was 0.017 per surgery.