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Surgical Infection

Treatment to prevent blood clots ordered:
Group results
Percentage of eligible patients of eligible surgery patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots for certain types of surgeries.  (January 2007 – March 2007 data).

The types of surgery that are currently measured for use of preventive antibiotics at Saint Alphonsus are: coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), cardiac valves and other cardiac procedures, hip replacement, knee replacement, colon, abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy and vascular surgery.

Treatment to prevent blood clots ordered: Our results over time

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