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CDC, surgeons plan safety measurement effort
Posted April 30, 2012
The American College of Surgeons announced a three-year joint project with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at improving surgical safety measurement and outcomes.
The organizations will work to transfer data from the college’s National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network for use in publicly reporting surgical safety. They also will work to make greater use of electronic health records to collect and submit surgical quality data.
The National Quality Forum endorsed two quality metrics on surgical site infections and urinary tract infections this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid could adopt these as national outcome measures for surgical safety as soon as 2015, the college said.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/04/30/prbf0430.htm.
