NSQIP - Safety Measurement
Danbury Hospital participates in a national database for collection of data on surgical safety, along with over 200 other committed hospitals around the country. The name of the national project is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP). This project has been endorsed by the American College of Surgeons.
Surgical Infections
Infections after surgery should be avoidable. No hospital can guarantee that their patients will never develop an infection after surgery, but good hospitals have a very low infection rate because of vigilant cleanliness, meticulous surgical technique, and scrupulous wound management after surgery. Post operative infections can vary from relatively minor superficial wound infections to serious infections that require additional hospitalization or even procedures for the complications.
Post operative infections can occur while the patient is still in the hospital, but often may not be discovered until after discharge. Most hospitals measure their infection rates during hospitalization but it can be more difficult to measure infection rates that include post operative follow up if the patient is being followed in a doctor’s office, especially if the management does not require repeat hospitalization.
NSQIP Performance Report of Danbury Hospital
We measure multiple measures or outcomes related to general surgery, vascular surgery and bariatric (obesity) surgery, and compare our results with the other participating hospitals. Our surgeons willingly share the information about their patients’ care after discharge, including allowing our staff to review their office records. Collectively, the participating hospitals learn from each other how to improve their performance.
The most important measures we collect have to do with different types of post operative infections. We are reporting here our aggregated post operative wound infection rates, and compare our results to other participating hospitals like us – large teaching hospitals.