Collaborations

Medicare-initiated quality improvement program spawns six-state surgical care collaboration

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, March 17th, 2006

A healthcare collaboration has been built through the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) 6. More than 100 hospitals in six states led by six Medicare-designated Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) are sharing resources and expertise to define best practices for surgical care safety.

Nearly 40% of the more than 42 million surgical procedures performed in the United States each year have associated postoperative complications, such as infection, thromboembolic events, respiratory complications and adverse cardiac events. According to a 2003 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, postoperative complications accounted for up to...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2006-03-17)

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