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Surgical Care Improvement Project

The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national quality partnership of organizations focused on improving surgical care by significantly reducing surgical complications. It is a unique partnership that is proving to be a transformational undertaking in health care. The SCIP goal is to reduce the incidence of surgical complications nationally by 25 percent by the year 2010.

For more information about SCIP, please contact us.

For more resources relating to SCIP, please visit the Patient Safety - SCIP section of MedQIC.



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