Prevention Success Stories
Prevention Success Stories
Successful efforts to prevent health-care acquired infections occur daily in U.S. hospitals. However, few of these "prevention success stories" are presented in the medical literature or discussed at professional meetings. Key components of successful prevention efforts include multidisciplinary teams, appropriate educational interventions, and data dissemination to clinical staff.
In the past two decades in the United States, demands from patients, insurance companies, managed-care organizations, employers, providers, and policy makers for improved health care have increased dramatically. An essential component of quality improvement efforts is performance measurement, the quantification of processes and outcomes by using one or more dimensions of performance. Such data can be used for accountability, research, or improvement. An important part of the improvement perspective is sharing success stories or "best practices." We describe key improvement concepts of performance measurement from individual hospitals and selected hospitals in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system.
Successful efforts to prevent health-care acquired infections occur daily in U.S. hospitals. However, few of these "prevention success stories" are presented in the medical literature or discussed at professional meetings. Key components of successful prevention efforts include multidisciplinary teams, appropriate educational interventions, and data dissemination to clinical staff.
In the past two decades in the United States, demands from patients, insurance companies, managed-care organizations, employers, providers, and policy makers for improved health care have increased dramatically. An essential component of quality improvement efforts is performance measurement, the quantification of processes and outcomes by using one or more dimensions of performance. Such data can be used for accountability, research, or improvement. An important part of the improvement perspective is sharing success stories or "best practices." We describe key improvement concepts of performance measurement from individual hospitals and selected hospitals in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system.
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