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Surgical Care Improvement/Surgical Infection Prevention Process of Care Measures (September 2008)

Quality
Measures
Mease Countryside Hospital Mease Dunedin Hospital Morton Plant Hospital Morton Plant North Bay Hospital South Florida Baptist Hospital St. Anthony's Hospital St. Joseph's Hospital United States Ave. Top 10% Ave. Florida Ave.
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received Preventative Antibiotics One Hour Before Incision 90%
  
94%
  
88%
  
82%
  
80%
  
88%
  
85%
  
84%
  
97%
  
89%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received the Appropriate Preventative Antibiotic for Their Surgery 91%
  
98%
  
93%
  
92%
  
86%
  
87%
  
91%
  
91%
  
99%
  
90%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received Treatment To Prevent Blood Clots Within 24 Hours Before or After Selected Surgeries to Prevent Blood Clots 77%
  
88%
  
84%
  
82%
  
66%
  
81%
  
66%
  
77%
  
95%
  
76%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Doctors Ordered Treatments to Prevent Blood Clots For Certain Types of Surgeries 81%
  
91%
  
88%
  
85%
  
66%
  
83%
  
69%
  
80%
  
97%
  
81%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Preventative Antibiotics are Stopped Within 24 hours After Surgery 82%
  
94%
  
94%
  
76%
  
82%
  
77%
  
87%
  
82%
  
97%
  
79%
  

The rates displayed in this graph are from data reported to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for discharges January 2007 through December 2007.

Key

Top Performance. At or above the U.S. Top 10 percent average.


Significantly higher than the U.S. average.


About the same as the U.S. average.


Significantly lower than the U.S. average. Click on the cell to read our Action Plan.
* Technical Note. The sample size is too small (less than 25) to apply significance testing.

n/a

No patients met the criteria for inclusion in the measure calculation.



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