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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;294:1481.

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A partnership of public and private health care organizations has launched a project to reduce surgical complications by 25% by 2010. The Surgical Care and Improvement Project (SCIP) is designed to provide hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other caregivers with effective strategies to reduce four common surgical complications: surgical wound infections, blood clots, perioperative myocardial infarctions, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. SCIP participants based the current strategies on the best available science and will refine and improve them as new scientific information becomes available.

A new initiative will provide health care workers with the latest strategies to reduce common surgical complications.

More information about the project appears at http://www.medqic.org/scip.

The SCIP Partnership is coordinated through a steering committee of 10 national organizations, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American College of Surgeons, the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for . . . [Full Text of this Article]