The American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have formed a strategic partnership to improve surgical patient safety at the national level.
The ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the CDC's Division of Health Care Quality Promotion will form a work group to jointly develop and maintain measures of SSIs and infectious and noninfectious complications that affect surgical patients. The work group will build upon the portfolio of SSI measures developed jointly by ACS and CDC in 2010 for abdominal hysterectomy and colon operations. These measures are now in place as part of Medicare quality reporting programs.
Furthermore, ACS and CDC will explore ways to maximize the use of electronic health records for collecting and submitting standard SSI measure data and other data to aggregating systems, namely ACS NSQIP and CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. The collaboration will span over a three-year period.
The ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the CDC's Division of Health Care Quality Promotion will form a work group to jointly develop and maintain measures of SSIs and infectious and noninfectious complications that affect surgical patients. The work group will build upon the portfolio of SSI measures developed jointly by ACS and CDC in 2010 for abdominal hysterectomy and colon operations. These measures are now in place as part of Medicare quality reporting programs.
Furthermore, ACS and CDC will explore ways to maximize the use of electronic health records for collecting and submitting standard SSI measure data and other data to aggregating systems, namely ACS NSQIP and CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. The collaboration will span over a three-year period.
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