For more information contact:
Diane Smith
Director,
Patient Safety and Care Transitions
(248) 465-7329
dsmith@mpro.org
Surgical Safety and Heart Failure
Surgical Care Improvement Project - SCIP
The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national quality partnership of organizations committed to improving the safety of surgical care through the reduction of postoperative complications. The ultimate goal of the partnership is to reduce nationally the incidence of surgical complications 25 percent by the year 2010. The partners believe that a meaningful reduction in complications requires that surgeons, anesthesiologists, perioperative nurses, pharmacists, infection control professionals and hospital executives work together to intensify their commitment to making surgical care improvement a priority.
SCIP focuses on the prevention of surgical site infections, perioperative myocardial infarction, post-operative pneumonia and venous thromboembolism (pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis). Although some surgical complications are unavoidable, surgical care can be improved through better adherence to evidence-based practice recommendations and more attention to designing systems of care with redundant safeguards.
