Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/The Joint Commission

October 8, 2012

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Measure Summaries

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/The Joint Commission

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of cardiac surgery patients with controlled 6 A.M. postoperative blood glucose. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of patients who received prophylactic antibiotics consistent with current guidelines. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of patients who received prophylactic antibiotics within one hour prior to surgical incision. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of patients whose prophylactic antibiotics were discontinued within 24 hours after anesthesia end time. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgery patients for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia or who had at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 96.8° F/36° C recorded within the 30 minutes immediately prior to or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgery patients on beta-blocker therapy prior to arrival who received a beta-blocker during the perioperative period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgery patients who received appropriate VTE prophylaxis within 24 hours prior to anesthesia start time to 24 hours after anesthesia end time. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgery patients with appropriate surgical site hair removal. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgery patients with recommended VTE prophylaxis ordered anytime from hospital arrival to 24 hours after anesthesia end time. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgical patients with urinary catheter removed on postoperative day 1 or postoperative day 2 with the day of surgery being day zero. This updates a previously published measure summary.