Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-200

  Wick, Elizabeth C ^a   Hobson, Deborah B ^a,b   Bennett, Jennifer L ^a   Demski, Renee ^b   Maragakis, Lisa ^a   Gearhart, Susan L ^a   Efron, Jonathan ^a   Berenholtz, Sean M ^a   Makary, Martin A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS; American College of Surgeons; Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program; CUSP; National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; NSQIP; SCIP; SSI; Surgical Care Improvement Project; surgical site infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; SURGERY BASED COMPREHENSIVE UNIT BASED SAFETY PROGRAM; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT PROJECTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864287171     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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