Dissemination and Implementation: INQRI's Potential Impact
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Read the perspectives of principal investigators from INQRI-funded implementation sites: strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
Patient Safety and Outcomes
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Slow Progress on Meeting Hospital Safety Standards
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
In response to the Institute of Medicine’s To Err Is Human report on the prevalence of medical errors, the Leapfrog Group, an organization that promotes hospital safety and quality, established a voluntary hospital survey assessing compliance with several safety standards.
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In an effort to evaluate quality improvement (QI) programs, self-reported versus externally rated measures of QI success led to different results. This study suggests that, ideally, evaluations of QI efforts should use externally rated measures.
Designing Effective Healthcare Quality Improvement Training Programs
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nursing leaders reported gains in quality improvement knowledge and the use of quality improvement tools after attending training programs.
Is Patient Safety Improving?
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article assesses patient safety indicators (PSIs) over the past decade to examine whether national safety and quality trends have improved. Of the 15 PSIs considered in this study, seven PSIs had increasing annual percentages changes and seven had decreasing annual percentage changes.
Improving the Safety of Patient Care by Looking at the Airline Industry
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.
Global Trigger Tool' Shows that Adverse Events in Hospitals May be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Reliance on voluntary reporting and the Patient Safety Indicators could produce misleading conclusions about the current safety of care in the U.S. health care system and misdirect efforts to improve patient safety.
A Two-Pronged Quality Improvement Training Program for Leaders and Frontline Staff
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
An in-house education program improved senior staff knowledge of quality improvement and engaged frontline staff in quality improvement projects.
The Business Case for TCAB
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
Measuring How Nurses Contribute to Patient Safety and Health Care Quality
January 7, 2010 | Program Result Report
Performance measures tested to determine whether they can assess and improve the ways nurses contribute to patient safety and health care quality in acute care hospitals.