AHRQ - National Project Launched To Reduce Surgical Complications by 25 Percent

http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2005/scippr.htm

In an effort to improve surgical care in hospitals nationwide, a partnership of leading public and private health care organizations has launched a project to reduce surgical complications by 25 percent by the year 2010.

The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP): www.medqic.org/scip