Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
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Wrong-site surgery: We're not doing all that we can
The error was as dramatic as it was unimaginable: Surgeons at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN, recently removed the wrong kidney from a patient with kidney cancer. -
Universal protocol to become more 'prescriptive'
The Joint Commission will soon be releasing a revised version of the universal protocol, reports Peter Angood, MD, vice president and chief patient safety officer for The Joint Commission. -
Christiana slashes sepsis mortality rate
In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2% by addressing three major areas of sepsis care: identification of patients with sepsis, resuscitation strategies, and ICU management. -
How do you get your board on board?
How do you engage the top leadership of your facility in the pursuit of quality improvement? This has been one of the greatest challenges for quality professionals and is now a key objective of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) "5 Million Lives" campaign. -
SHEA estimates preventable HAIs
In the absence of any meaningful literature that identify the number of preventable hospital-associated infections (HAIs) that occur in the Untied States, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) was asked by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to provide such an estimate. -
New care model transforms facility
ThedaCare's Appleton (WI) Medical Center has cut its average length of stay by 20% and improved quality, safety, and patient satisfaction by transforming the way it provides care. -
News Briefs
Patients like quality, satisfaction surveys; Cigna stops paying for 'avoidable' conditions; States participating in QI institute; More hospitals offering palliative care; AHRQ resource features 100 innovations and tools; NCQA to expand quality program