Queensway Carleton Hospital being recognized for work in high risk surgeries
Posted Dec 1, 2021 07:27:00 PM.
Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is being recognized for outstanding quality in surgical patient care in 2020, by the American College of Surgeons.
It's one of only 17 Canadian hospitals – and the only hospital in Ottawa – to be recognized for high risk surgeries.
In order to be considered for the award, QCH hospital submitted information on the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgeries. That information determines what category the hospital gets recognized for: All Cases or High Risk.
To be recognized, hospitals need to exhibit superior outcomes in the following complex areas:
- Mortality
- Unplanned intubation
- Ventilator > 48 hours
- Renal failure
- Cardiac incidents (cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction)
- Respiratory (pneumonia)
- SSI (surgical site infections-superficial and deep incisional and organ-space SSIs)
- Urinary tract infection
In addition, in order to be considered for high risk, the surgeries had to have an expected risk in the highest quartile for each of those areas, and QCH had to have a better-than-average score in both mortality and morbidity.
QCH was one of only 12 hospitals in Canada to consistently surpass outcomes for high risk surgeries. A total of 90 hospitals were recognized internationally of an eligible 607 participating hospitals.
QCH uses the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) program data to review its surgical outcomes and continues to utilize the data to implement surgical quality initiatives.
