| Surgical Care Indicators |
DeKalb Memorial Hospital |
Ave of All Hospitals Reporting in the State |
Ave of All Hospitals Reporting in the Nation |
| Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better) |
98% |
95% |
95% |
| Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better) |
100% |
96% |
95% |
| Percent of Surgical Patients Who Received Preventative Antibiotic(s) One Hour Before Incision if appropriate |
100% |
97% |
97% |
| Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Preventative Antibiotic(s) are Stopped Within 24 hours if appropriate |
98% |
96% |
96% |
| Percent of Surgery Patients who Received the Appropriate Preventative Antibiotic(s) for their Surgery |
97% |
95% |
94% |
| Percent of surgery patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery, who had hair removed using a safer method (electric clippers or hair removal cream not a razor.) |
100% |
98% |
97% |
| Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received Treatment to Prevent Blood Clots Within 24 hrs Before or After Selected Surgeries. |
82% |
93% |
94% |
| Percent of Surgery Patients whose Doctors Ordered Treatments to Prevent Blood Clots for Certain Types of Surgeries |
87% |
95% |
95% |
| Percent of surgical patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on the beta blockers during the period just before and after their surgery. |
100% |
87% |
87% |
| Percent of surgical patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on the beta blockers during the period just before and after their surgery. |
87%* |
94% |
95% |
| Surgery patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery. |
93%* |
93% |
92% |
