IHA case studies
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Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...
During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...
Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
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...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
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 hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...
