Premier - A supporting partnership organization of the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/SCIP

Premier is pleased to be a "supporting partnership organization" in the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), a national quality improvement project designed to improve surgical care in hospitals. Premier has pledged to participate in SCIP by:

• Educating our membership about SCIP:
  • Download a video about SCIP (.wmv) (14 MB). Requires Windows Media Player.
  • Download a slide presentation about SCIP (.ppt) (130 KB) and Premier data tools for collection and reporting of SCIP measures
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• Encouraging our membership to participate in SCIP and facilitate the collection and submission of data with the Premier Quality Measures Reporter™ tool that fully supports the abstraction and reporting of SCIP;
• Facilitating continuous quality improvement by helping members share interventions, intervention tools, and information on effective methods for improving processes and surgical patient outcomes;
• Committing to raising the profile of surgical care improvement and SCIP through the education of clinical providers and health care leaders; and
• Seeking opportunities for synergy with the SCIP Partnership to reach the national goal, including leadership, communication and outreach.

What is SCIP?

SCIP is a multi-year national campaign and partnership of leading public and private healthcare organizations aimed at reducing surgical complications by 25 percent by the year 2010. SCIP is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in collaboration with a number of other national partners serving on the steering committee, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and others. SCIP is an extension of a previous CMS initiative called the Surgical Infection Prevention Project (SIPP). Premier has been a member of both the SIPP and SCIP expert panels, as well as a supporting partner organization.

1. Tools and resources on the SCIP Web site include:
   • The official Web site of SCIP is located on the CMS QualityNet Web site
   • At this site you will find the following:
     • Tools : Order sets, checklists, pocket cards -
     • Stories: Improvement stories, reports, news,
     • Links: Resources for other organizations
     • Measures: Listing of SCIP measures
     • Other Resources: Fact sheets, project information, training materials
     • Presentations
   • Contact your state QIO for assistance with your program
   • Participation is voluntary; however, many of the measures are components of measures being collected by other initiatives, including the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), Premier's HQID, JCAHO core measures, and CMS's 8th Scope of Work, American College of Surgeons initiative (ASC/NSQIP), IHI's 5 million lives, IHI's 5 million lives, and Premier's own data tools (eg (Quality Advisor).

2. Educate your patients about SCIP:
   • Be familiar with the "Tips for Safer Surgery" Consumer Tip sheet that is being released to consumers and provides questions that patients should ask concerning surgery. Download "Tips for Safer Surgery" (.pdf) (514 KB).
   • Provide patients with a copy of the Tip Sheet and discuss it with them early in the surgery process. Download "Letter from SCIP on educating patients" (.doc)
     (192 KB).
3. Join the List-Serve:
   The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) has its own listserv for participants.
   Click here to join.
4. SCIP measurement information forms or specifications can be accessed at:
   http://www.qualitynet.org/
   SCIP specifications, or measure information forms contain information relevant to each measure, such as the definition, rationale, included and excluded populations, and data elements. The references used to support the measure and the algorithm used to determine the numerator and denominator for each measure are included.
5. Access antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery and cardiac surgery resources:
   Antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery: An Advisory Statement from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project and Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Cardiac Surgery - Duration of prophylaxis.

What can consumers and patients do now?

Millions of people have surgery every year. Every surgery has risks, but there are some that can be prevented. If you doctors and nurses follow some simple steps you will have a shorter and safer hospital stay. Download "Tips for Safer Surgery" (.pdf) (514 KB) to learn more about what to ask members of your surgical team before surgery.

 

What is Premier offering to assist with improving surgical care in hospitals and data collection for SCIP?

Education

Advisor Live audio conference

Premier hosts an Advisor Live audio conference series – on safety, quality and performance improvements. Everyone is welcome and there is no fee to participate.

Visit Premier's Advisor Live web site for program schedule, registration for upcoming programs, and audiofiles and slides from previous programs on quality, safety and performance improvement at http://www.premierinc.com/advisorlive
 

Data tools for collection and reporting of SCIP Measures

Premier Quality Measures Reporter™ tool fully supports the abstraction and reporting of SCIP. The tool is part of Premier’s Advisor Suite of comparative data tools, powered by Perspective™ the largest clinical and operational comparative database in the U.S. For more information about Premier’s data tools, contact the Customer solution center or visit:
http://www.premierinc.com/quality-safety/tools-services/advisor-suite/qmr.jsp.

For more information

For more information about SCIP, visit www.medqic.org/scip, e-mail SCIPpartnership@okqio.sdps, or call 405.840.2891.

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