Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative saves 533 lives and $75 million in 3 years

ACS NSQIP® provides the way for Tennessee hospitals to significantly improve quality, reduce surgical complications

2014-07-28

(Press-News.org) NEW YORK (July 28, 2:45 pm [ET]): Ten hospitals in the Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative (TSQC) have reduced surgical complications by 19.7 percent since 2009, resulting in at least 533 lives saved and $75.2 million in reduced costs, according to new results presented today at the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) National Conference in New York City. The hospital collaborative was formed in 2008 as a partnership of the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the Tennessee Hospital Association's (THA) Center for Patient Safety, with support from Blue Cross Blue Shield's Tennessee Health Foundation. Through the ACS NSQIP program, TSQC hospitals collected clinical, 30-day outcomes data from 10 participating hospitals to examine and identify trends in and evaluate best practices. Between 2009 and 2012, participating hospitals collected data on more than 55,000 surgical procedures and researchers examined rates of 17 different types of surgical complications. Compared with complication rates in 2009, participating hospitals in 2012 achieved 19.7 percent fewer postoperative occurrences (p END

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