The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in coordination with the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Johns Hopkins, is conducting a safety program for surgery and recovery.
Hospitals wishing to participate in the free program that begins in March 2019 can contact AHRQ’s Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) team at
iscr@facs.org.
Participating hospital teams – which AHRQ says must be multidisciplinary and can be led by surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and/or quality improvement professionals or hospital administrators – will have access to perioperative quality experts, and evidence-based clinical pathways ready for local adaptation. There will be tools, monthly coaching calls, in-person training, data collection platforms and more.
AHRQ says, “Participating hospitals can experience an improved uptake of multimodal analgesia and reduced opioid use, reductions in surgical site infections (SSI), reductions in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), reductions in venous thromboembolic events (VTE), improvement in patient experience, improvement in teamwork and safety culture, and improvement in length of stay and readmissions.”
More information is here.