BROADWATER

Preventing Surgical Site Infection can generate up to $180,000 in healthcare savings 9. Achieving this goal would yield up to $600,000,000 in savings to society... Promoting shared decision making with providers and patients through the development and use of educational materials and patient-specific risk severity scores: Use of patient decision aids is associated with 21% reduction in deciding on invasive approaches 13... Spine Surgery is a necessary, beneficial, and cost-effective intervention 1,2. However, every year an estimated 60,000 patients are harmed in the course of Spine Surgery 3-7. The S3P vision is to reduce the number of patients harmed during and after spine surgery by 50%, from 60,000 to 30,000 by 2023. Preventing harm would generate up to $1 billion in savings to society.