IHA case studies
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
