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Performance by Category—
Surgical Infection

Use of preventive antibiotic before surgery:
Group results
Percentage of eligible patients getting preventive antibiotics within one hour of the start of surgery. Antibiotics are medicines to prevent and treat infections. It is recommended that preventive antibiotics be given to patients within one hour of the start of surgery. This is important because having the antibiotics already working in the bloodstream when the surgeon starts the operation helps reduce the chances of getting an infection.

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.

Use of preventive antibiotic before surgery: Our Results Over Time

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