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

Quality
Measures
United States Ave. Top 10% Ave. Florida Ave.
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received Preventative Antibiotic(s) One Hour Before Incision 83%
  
97%
  
88%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received the Appropriate Preventative Antibiotic(s) for Their Surgery 90%
  
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 76%
  
95%
  
74%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Doctors Ordered Treatments to Prevent Blood Clots For Certain Types of Surgeries 80%
  
97%
  
80%
  
Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Preventative Antibiotic(s) are Stopped Within 24 hours After Surgery 80%
  
97%
  
78%
  

The rates displayed in this table are from data reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for discharges October 2006 to September 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 Improvement 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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