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Patient deaths from heart failure were decreased by 50%, readmissions reduced by 12%, and complications reduced by 77%, as a result of a quality improvement initiative at Texas-based Valley Baptist Health System.
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Using a "daily rounding quality checklist," which takes just a few minutes to complete, the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Hospital increased compliance with "care bundles" to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and other intensive care unit complications.
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It could be a routine preoperative check X-ray that shows a suspicious-looking lesion or a STAT blood test suggesting a potentially virulent infection. The test results must be communicated to the ordering physician. When critical test results are not received by the physician in a timely manner there can be tragic results.
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A group of hospitals implements an inexpensive, evidence-based intervention to prevent costly, potentially fatal infections in acutely ill patients. Investigators monitor the results and find a significant improvement in infection rates that is sustained over time.
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Would you like to decrease falls and nosocomial skin breakdown, reduce the frequency of patients' call light use, and increase satisfaction of both patients and nursing staff? After a 2006 study linked these and other benefits to nursing rounds, a growing number of organizations are implementing this practice.
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Improving the safety of using medications has always been a National Patient Safety Goal. Each year the goal is reviewed by The Joint Commission and requirements are adjusted based on current priorities.
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Making sure that conditions that are "present on admission" (POA) are identified as such. Using newly acquired data to identify potential quality issues. Dealing with physicians who refuse to conform to new documentation requirements.
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When it comes to requirements for "present on admission" (POA), the focus too often is on reimbursement instead of patient care, according to some quality improvement experts.
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Baptist Health System of Jacksonville, FL, has become one of only 13 health care systems nationwide to achieve recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Magnet health care system, an international quality designation considered the "gold standard" for nursing and clinical care.
