You don’t have to go digging through mountains of data to find benchmarking information. As part of our cost-saving issue, Same-Day Surgery offers free statistics from the ASC Quality Collaboration.
Data was obtained for patient admissions from July 1, 2015, through Sept. 30, 2015, from the following organizations: Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, AmSurg, Covenant Surgical Partners, HCA Ambulatory Surgery Division, Regent Surgical Health, Surgical Care Affiliates, Surgery Partners-Symbion, United Surgical Partners International, and Visionary Enterprises.
The most recent data has been collected from 1,404 ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), including 908 multispecialty ASCs and 496 single-specialty ASCs, representing every state except West Virginia and Vermont. This report presents aggregated performance data for ASC facility-level quality measures developed by the ASC Quality Collaboration:
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patient fall in the ASC: 0.099 per 1,000 admissions;
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patient burns: 0.020 per 1,000 admissions;
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hospital transfer/admission: 1.002 per 1,000 admissions;
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wrong site, side, patient, procedure, implant: 0.027 per 1,000 admissions;
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prophylactic IV antibiotic timing: 99%;
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appropriate surgical site hair removal: 97%;
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normothermia: 94%;
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cataract patients with unplanned anterior vitrectomy: 0.48%. (For more information, go to http://ascquality.org/qualityreport.cfm.)
