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 by 25 percent by the year 2010. Partners in the SCIP 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.
If you would like to see more about this project and several references for prevention of surgical complications in orthopedic (and other) surgeries, please go to the project web site at www.medqic.org/scip. The project is still in the developmental stage, but we are updating the site with new information twice a month until the launch in August 2005.
