CHRISTUS Health Quality Report -
Percent of Surgery Patients Who Received Preventative Antibiotic(s) One Hour Before Incision

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Number of surgical patients per 100 who received preventative antibiotic(s) within the recommended time before surgery begins (one hour for most antibiotics). Getting an antibiotic within one hour before surgery reduces the risk of wound infections.

The data used to compute the indicator percentage for the system overall and each individual facility was collected from October January 2009 to March 2009.