IHA case studies
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According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...
The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...
By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...
Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
