IHA case studies
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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...
Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
