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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...
The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
