Why is it clinically important for patients to receive antibiotics prior to surgery?

One of the quality measures reported by hospitals to the Centersfor Medicare and Medicaid Services which is published on theHospital Compare website is statistics on “surgery patients whowere given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour ofsurgery) to help prevent infection.” Answer the following questionsto reflect on your understanding of this quality measure. In aminimum of 250 words address the following:Why is it clinically important for patients to receiveantibiotics prior to surgery?In regards to clinical documentation in the health record thatwould be reviewed to report on hospital performance of this qualitymeasure, which portion of the record would provide the mostaccurate details to confirm the administration and time ofadministration of antibiotics prior to surgery?If hospital a consistently scores low on this measure, what doesthis indicate?If a hospital is scoring low on this quality measure, whichclinical quality management process could be used to help thehospital understand why the performance is low, formulate a plan toimprove its score, implement the plan, and evaluate results of thismeasure in the future?