The South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative: A New Effort to Improve Surgical Outcomes in South Carolina.

Regional surgical quality Collaboratives are improving surgical quality and cutting costs by building regional relationships that leverage information sharing to improve outcomes. The South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative (SCSQC) is a new regional surgical quality Collaborative focused on improving general surgery outcomes in South Carolina. It is a joint effort which brings together the skills and resources of Health Sciences South Carolina, the South Carolina Hospital Association, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC Foundation to create a web-based data collection system to provide real-time outcomes data to participating surgeons, and establishing a supportive network for sharing best practices and promoting data driven quality improvement.