Surgical care improvement project and the orthopaedic patient.

The Surgical Care Improvement Project is a national quality initiative that is evidence based and supports positive patient outcomes. The initiative addresses a variety of interventions that can dramatically reduce the postoperative complications for the surgical orthopaedic patient. At Park Ridge Hospital (PRH), a clinical team performs daily quality rounds to identify orthopaedic patients who fall within these quality initiatives and to identify processes that involve all clinical staff in successfully achieving these initiatives.