AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery

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

The latest form for AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery expires 2024-01-31 and can be found here.

Attachment B – Safety culture survey_Data collection instrument

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