observational audit in January 2019 to evaluate its effectiveness. We
still saw opportunity for improvement, and continued to partner and
communicate with the correct stakeholders. We realized everyone in
the OR needed to be fully engaged, involved and made aware of our
prepping protocols.
While developing our new prepping process, we'd presented to the
hospital's OR committee, which is the forum for all of our surgeons,
so we went back to that group when more members were present. We
also engaged our SSI and infection prevention teams. More surgeons
were engaged with our refinements made to the standardization
process as a result.
In December 2019, we audited again and saw a more significant
increase in compliance. We were up to 68% in prep time compliance
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