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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
