IHA case studies
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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
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 ...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
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...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
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...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
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...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
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...
The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
