Measuring the Quality of Care Provided at the Cedars-Sinai Sinus Center

The Cedars-Sinai Sinus Center continually monitors and reports factors associated with a high quality of patient care.

Quality measures for the Sinus Center include:

• The volume of sinus surgeries done each year
• The percentage of procedures done on an outpatient basis
• Patient assessments of improvements in their sinus condition at three months, six months and 12 months after surgery. These assessments are done using the Sino-nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22).

A number of other quality of care measures are done for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a whole, including:

• Nursing excellence
• Patient satisfaction with outpatient care
• Patient satisfaction with inpatient care
• Prevention of hospital-acquired infections
• Surgical care measures such as prevention of surgical infections and blood clots
• Consumer perceptions of Cedars-Sinai