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Performance by Category—
Surgical Infection

Use of appropriate preventive antibiotic:
Group results
Percentage of eligible patients getting the recommended preventive antibiotic before surgery. Antibiotics are medicines to prevent and treat infections. There are certain antibiotics recommended to prevent infection. This measure reports the percentage of eligible patients who received the antibiotics recommended for their type of surgery.

The types of surgery that are currently measured for appropriate selection of 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.

Use of appropriate preventive antibiotic: Our Results Over Time

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