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SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...
Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...
The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...
Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
This AHRQ video vignette illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...
This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...