Successful Safety Strategies |
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One of the most successful efforts to improve quality and patient safety nationally was the Stop BSI national central line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) reduction campaign. Within a few years, a complication previously thought to be unpreventable saw dramatic improvement. How could this success be replicated? This was the subject of a recent Health Affairs article written by Peter Pronovost, who shares 8 necessary components of successful interventions:
- The program must be "sufficiently ripe" with interventions supported by robust evidence
- A national team must have sufficient infrastructure and a clear chain of accountability
- Standard measurements
- Local clinicians should be encouraged to modify the intervention to fit their culture and needs. When interventions are imposed on a team, rather than developed with a team, interventions are resisted.
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