Getting Started Kit
Updated How-to Guide with instructions for implementing the change in your organization, including changes and measures.
How-to Guide, Pediatric Supplement with recommendations for preventing surgical site infections in a pediatric setting.
PowerPoint presentation with Facilitator Notes to introduce and explain the intervention in your organization.
Download a one page summary
Updated Annotated Bibliography
Campaign Mentor Hospitals
The organizations on the Campaign Mentor Hospital Registry have volunteered to provide support, advice, clinical expertise, and tips to hospitals seeking help with their implementation efforts.
Prevent Surgical Site Infections Campaign Mentor Hospitals
Tools
Tools for hospitals working to prevent surgical site infection.
Tips for Safer Surgery
Frequently Asked Questions about Surgical Site Infections
Surgical Site Infections Checklist/Schedule
Prevent Surgical Site Infections: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families
Prevent Surgical Site Infections: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families - Spanish Translation
Download the Hand Hygiene Getting Started Kit
CDC's Hand Hygiene Training Module
Measurement Information Forms
Detailed information on the process and outcome measures outlined in the How-to Guide.
Percent of Clean Surgery Patients with Surgical Infection
Percent of Colorectal Surgical Patients with Perioperative Normothermia in PACU
Percent of Major Cardiac Surgical Patients with Controlled Post Operative Serum Glucose
Percent of Patients with Appropriate Selection of Prophylactic Antibiotic
Percent of Surgical Patients with Appropriate Hair Removal
Percent of Surgical Patients with Appropriate Prophylactic Antibiotic Discontinuation
Percent of Surgical Patients with Timely Prophylactic Antibiotic Administration
Improvement Stories
Read improvement stories and learn how others have succeeded in preventing surgical site infection.
View the abstract for a new article about Surgical Site Infection from the American Journal of Surgery.
Read about North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's zero tolerance for nosocomial infections
See how organizations participating in national initiatives are reducing their surgical site infection rates
OSF St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Bloomington, IL, has significantly reduced SSIs by implementing the SSI bundle and other measures to reduce infection.
Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City, OK, reduced SSIs by 78 percent in one year using evidence-based strategies, including the SSI bundle.
Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections
Resources
Other resources available to help your quality improvement efforts.
Join a Surgical Site Infection Web Discussion
CMS Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative
Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
Improvement Methods
Web-based Training: The Model for Improvement (there is a fee associated with this training)
Call Recordings
Recordings of Campaign calls on preventing surgical site infection.
March 23, 2005 - Informational Call
July 28, 2005 - Follow-up call
February 24, 2006 - Office Hours
May 5, 2006 - Office Hours
July 11, 2006 - Office Hours
October 4, 2006 - Office Hours
February 6, 2007 - Office Hours
National Action Day Materials
On June 20, 2007, over 35,000 participants focused their attention on getting results faster and more reliably. Materials used during the prevent surgical site infection session are available for download.
Reduce Surgical Complications Session Recording
PPT Slides, Slides as Handouts, Changes Made Worksheet, Changes Planned Worksheet, Blank Planning Worksheet
Contact
For more information contact:
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA
Email: fgriffin@ihi.org
Phone: (732) 869-0533
