What is Surgical Care?
Surgical Care is an initiative to decrease the number infections and other complications associated with surgery. The risk of wound infection and other complications after surgery can be reduced by providing the right medicines at the right time on the day of surgery and after surgery.
How is Care Measured?
When someone has surgery, timely, clear-cut treatment is critical. Evidence has shown that patients who received specific treatments and medications at certain times experienced the best outcomes. These treatments include:
- Antibiotic given 1 hour before incision
- Appropriate antibiotic given
- Antibiotic discontinued within 24 hours after surgery
- Treatment to prevent blood clots after surgery is ordered
- Patient receives treatment to prevent blood clots after surgery
- Surgery Patients With Hair Removal
- Beta Blocker prior to admission or during surgery
University Hospitals Bedford Medical Center, A Campus of UH Regional Hospitals exceeds the national average for most of the Surgical Care standards achieved by the nation’s top hospitals.
Details for each measurement are available at the Health and Human Services Web site Hospital Compare.
Surgical Care
| UH Bedford Campus of UH Regional Hospitals Process of Care Measure |
Percentage for UH Bedford Campus of UH Regional Hospitals |
State Average
|
National Average |
| Percent of surgery patients who were given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection
|
100% |
97% |
97% |
| Percent of surgery patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection
|
94% |
98% |
97% |
| Percent of surgery patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)
|
92% |
96% |
95% |
| Percent of surgery patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery, who had hair removed using a safer method (electric clippers or hair removal cream – not a razor)
|
100% |
100% |
100% |
| Percent of surgery patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
|
100% |
95% |
94% |
| Percent of patients who got treatment at the right time (within 24 hours before or after their surgery) to help prevent blood clots after certain types of surgery
|
100% |
93% |
93% |