ACS quality and safety case studies

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• A multidisciplinary approach reduces clostridium difficile infections in adult surgical patients
• Texas Children’s Hospital introduces standardized protocol to reduce pediatric baclofen pump infections
• Improving high-value care of ileocolic intussusception in a pediatric ED
• South Miami Hospital implements strategies for prevention of SSI in bariatric surgery
• Quality improvement in imaging strategies for pediatric appendicitis
• Preoperative smoking cessation: Every patient, every operation
• Practice changes lower rates of transfusion, superficial SSI, and morbidity
• Practice changes for reducing UTIs in colon and rectal surgery patients
• Impact of SSI reduction strategy after colorectal resection