Optimal Care Surgical Infection Prevention Score (Eligible Patients Receiving All Care Measures)

What Does This Measure?

The overall percentage of eligible surgery patients who received all of the measures of high-quality care tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Why Is This Important?

What Are We Doing to Improve Our Performance?

Duke has enacted several initiatives to improve our performance. These include:

• Evidence-based medicine (such as blood clot prevention protocols)
  
• Standardized order sets
• Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
• Patient rounding
• Electronic medical records (EMR)
• Six Sigma and DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control process) methodologies
• Nursing and physician education
• Patient safety and clinical quality committees
• Patient advocacy and support groups
• Antibiotic prescribing tools
• Surgery-specific patient education and instructions
• Balanced scorecard metrics
  
• Surgical Care Improvement Project Team
• OR View (Duke University Hospital only)

More Information

• See more surgery quality measures
• See all performance measures
• Compare Duke to other North Carolina hospitals at NC Hospital Quality Report
• Compare Duke to regional and national hospitals at Hospital Quality Alliance's Hospital Compare