Table 1.

Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Measures and Potential Complications Prevented (CMS 2012)

SCIP ID	Measure	Complication Prevented
SCIP-Inf-1	Prophylactic antibiotic received within 1 hour prior to surgical incision	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Inf-2	Prophylactic antibiotic selection for surgical patients	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Inf-3	Prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours after surgery end time	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Inf-4	Cardiac surgery patients with controlled 6 a.m. postoperative blood glucose	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Inf-6	Surgery patients with appropriate hair removal	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Inf-9	Urinary catheter removed on postoperative day 1 or 2	Urinary tract infection
SCIP-Inf-10	Surgery patients with perioperative temperature management	Surgical site infection
SCIP-Card-2	Surgery patients on beta-blocker therapy prior to arrival who received a beta-blocker during the peri-operative period	Cardiac event
SCIP-Vte-1	Surgical patients with recommended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis ordered any time from hospital arrival to 24 hours after anesthesia end time	Venous thrombo-embolism
SCIP-Vte-2	Surgery patients who received appropriate venous thrombo-embolism prophylaxis within 24 hours prior to anesthesia start time to 24 hours after anesthesia end time	Venous thrombo-embolism