IHA case studies
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Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...
A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...
The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...