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Performance by Category—
Surgical Infection

Use of preventive antibiotics after surgery:
Group results
Percentage of eligible patients whose preventive antibiotics are stopped within the recommended amount of time after surgery is completed. Antibiotics are medicines to prevent and treat infections. Preventive antibiotics should be stopped within 24 hours after surgery, or 48 hours after cardiac surgery.

The types of surgery that are currently measured for preventive antibiotics being stopped within the recommended time after surgery 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 preventive antibiotic before surgery: Our Results Over Time

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