Quality Improvement Program in Unit

Quality Implementation in Health Physics Unit, Cosenza Hospital. Accreditation Program as Quality Improvement instrument.

Achieving high levels of quality in healthcare, which could be measurable, is increasingly important at present and is dictated by the radical changes of the welfare system imposed today by the well known economic constraints. However, even in the ongoing legislation, the practices concerning the verification and review of the quality of health care has had a major impact in the galaxy of Healt...

Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP)

Background Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) completed its Systems Portfolio in October 2007, and submitted it for review to AQIP in November 2007. The Systems Portfolio is a diagnostic snapshot of the college’s continuous improvement processes. The portfolio is reviewed by a group of external Higher Learning Commission peer reviewers (called systems appraisers) who read the document, ev...

Quality improvement program to reduce the prevalence of pressure ulcers in an intensive care unit.

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients are at increased risk for pressure ulcers, which increase patients' morbidity and mortality. Quality improvement projects decrease the frequency of pressure ulcers. OBJECTIVES To improve patients' outcomes by reducing the prevalence of pressure ulcers, identifying areas for improvement in prevention of pressure ulcers, and increasing the adoption of preventi...

Rehabilitation quality improvement in an intensive care unit setting: implementation of a quality improvement model.

OBJECTIVE There are barriers to providing early physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) in the intensive care unit (ICU). We present a specific model for undertaking quality improvement (QI) projects and a case study focused on QI for early PM&R in the ICU. METHODS The QI project was undertaken using a 4-step model: (1) summarizing the evidence, (2) identifying barriers, (3) establishing ...

CMS offers CME program for quality improvement.

Through a new program, Wisconsin physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners can earn continuing medical education (CME) credit for participating in quality improvement projects in their own clinics. The American Medical Association (AMA) will award Category 1 credit and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) will award Prescribed credit to physicians and other health car...

Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Neonatal Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative