Development of a standardized process improvement protocol to address elevated health care-associated infection rates on an incented quality scorecard

Jeanne A. Yegge; Kathleen A. Gase; Diane Hopkins-Broyles; Carole L. Leone; Ellen W. Trovillion; Hilary M. Babcock

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2013.09.020

Development of a standardized process improvement protocol to address elevated health care-associated infection rates on an incented quality scorecard

Jeanne A. Yegge, Kathleen A. Gase, Diane Hopkins-Broyles, Carole L. Leone, Ellen W. Trovillion, Hilary M. Babcock

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This practice forum report details a standardized improvement process that was created both to improve patient outcomes related to various hospital-acquired infections and to address leadership concerns related to incented qua BJC Learning Institutear retrospective review identified common issues to guide future interventions and confirmed that this methodology reduced the rate of recurrent infections across the health care system. Process tool samples are provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-189
Number of pages	5
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.09.020
State	Published - Feb 2014

Keywords

Accountability
Dashboard
Infection prevention
Intervention
Measures
Metrics

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