Four years ago, the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) was launched, with the ambitious aim of reducing 3 types of preventable complications by 25% by 2010: surgical site infections perioperative heart attack deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. SCIP is a national quality partnership led by 10 organizations and agencies…

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Postoperative patients are among the groups at highest risk for developing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in ICU patients. The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), a national quality partnership, is targeting VAP as one of 4 types of major surgical complications to prevent.…

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