This is a quality improvement project
that aims to provide technical assistance to hospitals to help them
implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent
complications among patients who undergo surgery. Enhanced recovery
pathways are a constellation of preoperative, intraoperative, and
postoperative practices that decrease complications and accelerate
recovery. A number of studies and meta-analyses have demonstrated
successful results. In order to facilitate broader adoption of
these evidence-based practices among U.S. hospitals, this AHRQ
project will adapt the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
(CUSP), which has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to
reducing other patient harms, to enhanced recovery of surgical
patients. The approach uses a combination of clinical and cultural
(i.e., technical and adaptive) intervention components. The
adaptive elements include promoting leadership and frontline staff
engagement, close teamwork among surgeons, anesthesia providers,
and nurses, as well as enhancing patient communication and
engagement. Interested hospitals will voluntarily participate. This
project has the following goals: • Improve outcomes of surgical
patients by disseminating and supporting implementation of
evidence-based enhanced recovery practices within the CUSP
framework • Develop a bundle of technical and adaptive
interventions and associated tools and educational materials to
support implementation • Provide technical assistance and training
to hospitals for implementing enhanced recovery practices • Assess
the adoption and evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention
among the participating hospitals
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USC 299 Name of Law: Healthcare Research and Quality Act of
1999
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