IHA case studies

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    Decreasing Health Care-Acquired Conditions: A Community Hospital's Use of Process Improvement to Decrease CLASBIs

    After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

    June 1st, 2012
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    Lean Six Sigma Methods Reduce Blood Culture Contamination in an Inpatient Severe Sepsis Protocol

    A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

    June 1st, 2012
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    Reducing Excess Days Initiative

    Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

    June 1st, 2012
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    Reducing Anticoagulant Related Adverse Events; Redesigning Anticoagulant Management Using Six Sigma Methodology

    Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

    June 1st, 2012
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    Acquired Pressure Ulcer Prevention

    A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

    June 1st, 2012
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