IHA case studies
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The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...
Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...
In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...
Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
