Improving Quality
and Financial Results

primaris flame Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)

There are over 30 million major operations each year in the U.S. Patients who experience a postoperative complication have increased length of stay, hospital costs and mortality. Occurrence of 30-day complications reduced median patient survival by 69 percent and complications are associated with average increase in payment of $7,645 (54 percent) per patient.

Primaris Continues to offer free quality improvement resources for this topic.