Surgery
- Following evidence-based medicine guidelines in providing care
- System-wide surgical safety committee to share best practices, work on process improvement and optimize patient safety
- Tracking our performance and constantly working to improve on surgical care quality measures correlated with better health outcomes
- Holding the Scripps 1st Annual Quality Summit in November 2007. The speakers shared tips for improving surgical safety with 300+ Scripps employees. Keynote speaker provided follow up visit.
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- Scripps Green Hospital
- Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
- Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
- Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
- Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
Hospital quality measures we provide on this site include:
- Prophylactic antibiotic received within one hour prior to surgical incision
- Prophylactic antibiotic selection for surgical patients
- Prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours after surgery end time (48 hours for cardiac patients)
- Cardiac surgery patients with controlled 6 a.m. postoperative serum glucose
- Surgery patients with appropriate hair removal
- Surgical care beta blocker during perioperative period
- Surgery patients with recommended venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis ordered
- Surgery patients who received appropriate venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis within 24 hours prior to surgery to 24 hours after surgery
These surgical care quality measures are endorsed by the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), a national quality partnership of organizations interested in improving surgical care by significantly reducing surgical complications.