This document is a lecture on how health information technology (HIT) can impact patient safety culture. It discusses applying quality improvement tools to analyze HIT errors. It highlights the success of efforts led by Dr. Peter Pronovost to reduce central line bloodstream infections through standardization, independent checks, and learning from defects. Checklists, data collection, and adopting practices from high-reliability industries like aviation and Toyota have helped significantly reduce infection rates.
This document provides a summary of several websites that contain medical images. It lists repositories such as Wellcome Images, Cancer.net's gallery, and the Health Education Assets Library. It also identifies several government sources, including the CDC, NIH, NCI, and Library of Congress. Finally, it notes libraries at Rush University, University of Minnesota, and University of Arkansas that maintain lists of image resources.
The document provides information about Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. It discusses the school's rankings, including being first in MPH applications and first in applications to departments of global health, environmental health, and epidemiology. It also provides the school's location in Atlanta, Georgia and lists the current dean and chair of the faculty.
The document summarizes the Orthopaedic Trauma Association's Trauma and Fracture Care Residency Core Curriculum Lectures. It provides lectures to support comprehensive orthopaedic trauma resident education. The lectures are meant to be modified by educators and will be continually updated on the OTA website. The OTA thanks members who helped create this syllabus and acknowledges contributions from textbooks. It is recommended lectures be copied to one folder and file names/locations be consistent for links to work.
The document discusses the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) and its mission to provide accurate and rapid pest diagnosis and first detector education. It highlights the network's five regional centers based at land grant universities. It provides an example of how invasive pest records are announced to the public in Florida. It also summarizes collaborative identification guides and e-learning modules produced by the network, which cover topics like submitting diagnostic samples and plant disease and pest scenarios.
The Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC) Panel on Childhood Obesity in Chicago: Causative Factors and Proposed Solutions.
Dr. Choucair, along with Moderator Lisa Laurent, MD, Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Elif Oker, MD and Karen Walker, MD discuss childhood obesity in Chicago.
Nursing 615 hall drennan_class_presentationpammylouhall
This document summarizes key information about military and veteran health policies, organization, financing, stakeholders, consumers, and proposed improvements. It describes the current health challenges faced by veterans including combat injuries, PTSD, TBI, and suicide. It outlines the organization of care through direct care facilities and TRICARE insurance. Key stakeholders are identified including the President, Secretary of Defense, VA leadership, and Congress. The values of readiness and benefits are discussed. Needs and wants of consumers like access to promised care and opportunities are presented. Advantages and disadvantages of the current system are compared. Proposed changes to improve access, quality and costs are provided.
Recalls, Recovery, and (Credit) Reports, Oh My!vogus
This document lists various federal websites that provide consumer information on topics such as product recalls, personal finance reports, identity theft, food and water safety, energy efficiency, and information on economic recovery programs. Some of the key sites mentioned are Recalls.gov for information on product recalls, AnnualCreditReport.com for accessing free credit reports, and Recovery.gov for tracking federal stimulus spending.
Free Health and Safety Resources for Your Community (updated)evardell
This document lists and provides links to various free health and safety resources available from the National Library of Medicine, including MedlinePlus for general and topic-specific health information, NIH Senior Health, PubMed for medical literature, ToxMystery and ToxTown for toxicology information, and resources for emergency responders, clinical trials, household products, and dietary supplements. It encourages use of these resources to provide health and safety information to communities.
This document provides a summary of several websites that contain medical images. It lists repositories such as Wellcome Images, Cancer.net's gallery, and the Health Education Assets Library. It also identifies several government sources, including the CDC, NIH, NCI, and Library of Congress. Finally, it notes libraries at Rush University, University of Minnesota, and University of Arkansas that maintain lists of image resources.
The document provides information about Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. It discusses the school's rankings, including being first in MPH applications and first in applications to departments of global health, environmental health, and epidemiology. It also provides the school's location in Atlanta, Georgia and lists the current dean and chair of the faculty.
The document summarizes the Orthopaedic Trauma Association's Trauma and Fracture Care Residency Core Curriculum Lectures. It provides lectures to support comprehensive orthopaedic trauma resident education. The lectures are meant to be modified by educators and will be continually updated on the OTA website. The OTA thanks members who helped create this syllabus and acknowledges contributions from textbooks. It is recommended lectures be copied to one folder and file names/locations be consistent for links to work.
The document discusses the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) and its mission to provide accurate and rapid pest diagnosis and first detector education. It highlights the network's five regional centers based at land grant universities. It provides an example of how invasive pest records are announced to the public in Florida. It also summarizes collaborative identification guides and e-learning modules produced by the network, which cover topics like submitting diagnostic samples and plant disease and pest scenarios.
The Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC) Panel on Childhood Obesity in Chicago: Causative Factors and Proposed Solutions.
Dr. Choucair, along with Moderator Lisa Laurent, MD, Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Elif Oker, MD and Karen Walker, MD discuss childhood obesity in Chicago.
Nursing 615 hall drennan_class_presentationpammylouhall
This document summarizes key information about military and veteran health policies, organization, financing, stakeholders, consumers, and proposed improvements. It describes the current health challenges faced by veterans including combat injuries, PTSD, TBI, and suicide. It outlines the organization of care through direct care facilities and TRICARE insurance. Key stakeholders are identified including the President, Secretary of Defense, VA leadership, and Congress. The values of readiness and benefits are discussed. Needs and wants of consumers like access to promised care and opportunities are presented. Advantages and disadvantages of the current system are compared. Proposed changes to improve access, quality and costs are provided.
Recalls, Recovery, and (Credit) Reports, Oh My!vogus
This document lists various federal websites that provide consumer information on topics such as product recalls, personal finance reports, identity theft, food and water safety, energy efficiency, and information on economic recovery programs. Some of the key sites mentioned are Recalls.gov for information on product recalls, AnnualCreditReport.com for accessing free credit reports, and Recovery.gov for tracking federal stimulus spending.
Free Health and Safety Resources for Your Community (updated)evardell
This document lists and provides links to various free health and safety resources available from the National Library of Medicine, including MedlinePlus for general and topic-specific health information, NIH Senior Health, PubMed for medical literature, ToxMystery and ToxTown for toxicology information, and resources for emergency responders, clinical trials, household products, and dietary supplements. It encourages use of these resources to provide health and safety information to communities.
This document discusses a lecture on how health information technology (HIT) can impact patient safety culture. The lecture covers strategies for adaptive work that can be useful for HIT initiatives, including being unwavering in goals while inviting others to help achieve them, addressing real and perceived losses from changes, and assuming healthcare providers want to help patients. References are provided for images and content used in the lecture.
Introduction to Quality Improvement and Health Information TechnologyCMDLMS
This lecture discusses how health information technology (HIT) can impact quality improvement and patient safety. Well-implemented HIT has the potential to enhance safety, effectiveness, equity and other dimensions of care. However, unintended consequences can also lower quality if HIT solutions are not developed carefully. Workarounds created to adjust to new HIT systems may undermine safety if they circumvent important checks. Overall implementation of HIT requires attention to workflow, usability and avoidance of workarounds to fully realize benefits to patient care.
This document discusses pediatric preparedness for public health emergencies. It finds that only 27 of 57 emergency plans reviewed adequately addressed pediatric needs, despite national standards calling it a priority. Barriers to pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, and training. The author recommends consulting the National Commission on Children and Disasters report for guidance on improving pediatric emergency planning.
This document discusses pediatric preparedness for public health emergencies. It finds that only 27 of 57 emergency plans reviewed adequately addressed pediatric needs, despite national standards calling it a priority. Barriers to pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, and training. The author recommends consulting the National Commission on Children and Disasters report for guidance on improving pediatric emergency planning.
This document discusses pediatric emergency preparedness planning. It finds that while national standards cite pediatric planning as a priority, a review of 57 state plans found that only 27 adequately addressed pediatric needs. Barriers to improved pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, training and processes to identify gaps and access pediatric providers, especially in rural areas. The document recommends solutions to these barriers by consulting sections of the National Commission on Children and Disasters report.
Value Labs Case competition 2018 PPT - Campus FinalistsBhargava Ram
The document provides 15 references to various studies and articles on topics related to corporate wellness programs, healthcare costs, and the use of technology and telemedicine. It also includes a chart on healthcare spending from 1960 to 2016 and definitions of common insurance terminology. In the annexure section, there are additional details on hospital, physician, and prescription drug spending over time.
This lecture discusses principles of safety for health information technology (HIT). It aims to understand why medical errors occur by viewing healthcare delivery as a science and applying principles of safe design. These principles include standardizing processes, using checklists, and learning from mistakes. The lecture also emphasizes that systems, not individuals, are usually at fault when errors occur. It introduces the "Swiss cheese" model of accident causation and argues all systems will inevitably have failures so they must be designed to catch errors.
The document describes how the CDC's Science Impact Framework can be used to measure the impact of scientific work beyond just citation data. It provides three case studies that will illustrate how the framework can be applied. The framework uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure outcomes across five levels of influence: disseminating science, creating awareness, catalyzing action, effecting change, and shaping the future. The case studies will demonstrate how scientific work can have a complex path of impact that does not necessarily follow a linear progression through these levels of influence.
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Week 1: Nursing Informatics and Patient Safety
In 2011, Mason General Hospital was named by
Hospitals & Health Networks
magazine as one of the “Most Wired” hospitals in the United States. What makes this particularly significant is that Mason General is a small, 25-bed, rural hospital in the state of Washington. It credits its success to nurse Eileen Branscome, director of clinical informatics. Under her leadership, the hospital adopted such innovations as visual smart boards where real-time patient information is always available. According to the magazine, those hospitals designated as “Most Wired” “show better outcomes in patient satisfaction, risk-adjusted mortality rates, and other key quality measures through the use of information technology (IT)” (Mason General Hospital and Family of Clinics, 2012).
Developments in information technology have enabled patients and health care providers to collaborate for quality improvement at an unprecedented level, and nurses have consistently been at the forefront of these efforts. This week you focus on the IOM report “To Err Is Human” and consider how health information technology has helped to address the issues of patient safety and quality health care.
References:
Weinstock, M., & Hoppszallern, S. (2011). Health care’s most wired 2011.
Hospitals & Health Network Magazine, 85
(7), 26–37.
Mason General Hospital and Family of Clinics. (2012).
MGH&FC named most wired - Again!
Retrieved from
http://www.masongeneral.com/most_wired.html
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Analyze the utilization of health information technology to address issues raised in the IOM report “To Err Is Human”
Assess the role of informatics in improving health care safety
Photo Credit: Angela Schmidt/iStock/Getty Images
Learning Resources
Note:
To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
American Nurses Association. (2015).
Nursing informatics: Scope & standards of practice
(2nd ed.). Silver Springs, MD: Author.
“Introduction”
This portion of the text introduces nursing informatics and outlines the functions of the scope and standards.
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015).
Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge
(3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chap.
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Kari A. Hartwig, DrPH
Richard Louis Dunville, MPH
Michael H. Kim, MPH
Becca Levy, PhD
Margot M. Zaharek, MS
Valentine Y. Njike, MD, MPH
David L. Katz, MD, MPH
objectives (U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services [DHHS], 2000a). Today’s Healthy People 2010
(HP 2010) goals and objectives build on the previous
two decades’ accomplishments and set national targets
for reducing disease and disability and promoting
healthier, longer lives (DHHS, 2000b). Led by the U.S.
DHHS, the overarching goals of the current initiative
are to increase quality and years of life and to eliminate
health disparities (Davis, 2000; DHHS, 2003). DHHS
(2001) encourages working through communities and
local organizations to influence individual behavior
and the promotion and maintenance of environments
conducive to healthier lifestyles.
>>BACKGROUND
Building on the health promotion premise that orga-
nizations and communities are instruments of change
(McLeroy, Bibeau, Steckler, & Glanz, 1988; Stokols,
1992), the DHHS Office of Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion (ODPHP) initiated a pilot study in
October 2001 to develop a national model for engaging
community organizations in health promotion and dis-
ease prevention activities that reflect the national HP
2010 goals and objectives. ODPHP awarded the Healthy
People 2010 Microgrant Project, one of two pilot stud-
ies, to Yale Univer ...
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Assignment 1 Instructions
Instructions:
Select two web pages. One of the pages should be a page that you consider to be a good design. The other page should be one that you consider to be a poor design. Indicate why or why not each page represents a good or poor design. [Note: There is no right or wrong answer at this point. We will return to this exercise after you have completed several modules and compare your initial impressions with your impressions after having studied design guidelines.]
Deliverables:
1. Take a screen shot of the web page that you consider to be a poor design and paste it into a Word document. (Include its URL as a link above the screen shot.)
2. Below the screen shot, describe why you consider it to be a poor design, as well as its probable effect on the user. List a minimum of three reasons why it is a poor design and at least three likely outcomes of this poor design on usability.
3. Next, take a screen shot of the web page that you believe is a good design and paste it into the same Word document.
4. Below the screen shot, describe why you consider it to be a good design, as well as its probable effect on the user. List a minimum of three reasons why it is a good design and at least three user effects.
5. Below is an example of a “poor” design:
http://www.roanestate.edu/obs/
Summary: This whole web site is included on a single page that forces the user to have to scroll and scroll and scroll to retrieve any information.
Reasons why it is a poor design:
1. The color scheme makes it difficult to read.
2. Everything is included on a single web page, so you have to scroll and scroll to find anything.
3. Information is poorly organized. That is, it’s not divided into meaningful chunks.
Likely effects on the user:
1. The user won’t be able to easily read the information.
2. The user will have to scroll too much and possibly get “lost” on the page.
3. The user won’t be able to find what he’s looking for. He will likely get frustrated quickly and leave the site.
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Running Head: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE 1
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE 2
Department of Health and Human Service
Name: LaShanda Lewis
Institution: Strayer University
Date: 16 Jan 2017
Department of Health and Human Service
Introduction
The US department of health and human service (HHS) is a principal agency responsible for protection of the health of all citizens of America and provision of human services. The HHS also has an objective of increasing access of health care services to the Americans Indians and Alaska and natives. The agency has four strategic goals that focuses on the major function of the agency. The goals include Strengthen Health Care, Advance the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of the American People and Advance Scientific Knowledge and Innovation (Strategic Goals, Objective and Strategies 2014).
The agency has 5 major events since the year 2000-2010. Publication of human sequencin.
This lecture discusses how health information technology can help facilitate error reporting and analysis to improve patient safety. It presents three key HIT mechanisms: automated surveillance systems, online event reporting systems, and predictive analytics/data modeling. The lecture also emphasizes the importance of a culture of safety that encourages open discussion and learning from mistakes without blame. Error reports are analyzed using a risk assessment model to distinguish near misses from events that cause patient harm.
1 d (mostly) free health care references (jan 2014)David Butz
The document provides a summary of 40 references related to healthcare costs, quality, and statistics. It begins with 5 references on teaching cost-conscious care to medical students and residents. It then provides references on healthcare costs and burden of disease statistics in the United States, including top conditions, smoking-related mortality rates, and obesity trends. The document concludes with national health expenditure data and comparisons of the US healthcare system to other OECD countries.
This document summarizes presentations and research from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). It discusses:
1) Upcoming SHADAC presentations at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting on analyzing state health insurance data.
2) A webinar on Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus program simplifying eligibility and increasing enrollment.
3) SHADAC hosting a data user workshop in October to promote understanding and use of federal health survey resources.
US Federal Cancer Moonshot- One Year LaterJerry Lee
Presentation from former Cancer Moonshot Data and Technology Track Co-chairs Jerry S.H. Lee, PhD (NCI, former OVP) and Dimitri Kusnezov, PhD (DOE) to update on efforts that will help realize the Data/Tech Track's vision of a national learning healthcare system for cancer. These include NCI/DOE pilots, DOE/VA pilot, NCI GDC, DoD/VA/NCI APOLLO, NCI/GSK ATOM, and BloodPAC.
Only 27 of 57 public health emergency awardees included pediatric planning in their emergency plans as required. Barriers to adequate pediatric planning included a lack of funding, resources, communication and coordination between pediatric providers, treatment in rural areas, training, and processes to identify gaps in pediatric care and access providers. The document recommends consulting reports from the National Commission on Children and Disasters to address these barriers and better include pediatric needs in emergency preparedness plans.
Intro of data analysis in healthcare for triple aimYaxing Liu
Have you ever heard of Triple Aim in healthcare? The slide briefly introduces how to turn millions of healthcare data into useful insights and predictions for Triple Aim. What aspects do we usually use data for analysis? Reports for enrollment and ED visits demonstrate the aspects you can dig into. What is the structure for claims? How to use quality measures? It also has emergency department (ED) visits as the example to show how to use the codes in claims to dig out ED visits. Lastly, it explains common diagnosis and procedure coding in healthcare, including ICD, CPT, and HCPCS.
This report summarizes findings and recommendations from a leadership panel on traumatic brain injury (TBI) among current and former U.S. military personnel. The panel was formed in response to legislation requiring the CDC, NIH, DoD, and VA to improve data collection on TBI prevalence and incidence in the military. The report aims to raise awareness of military-related TBI as a public health issue, improve TBI surveillance efforts, and strengthen collaboration between agencies on diagnostic tools, treatments and rehabilitation. It provides an overview of TBI-related programs and research at each agency and makes recommendations on better measuring the health and socioeconomic impact of TBI in this population.
This presentation describes the historical basis for error reduction initiatives, published errors and rates of occurrence, prototype paper-based model vs software-based model, software-based model deployment, and results.
Culture of healthcare_ week 1_ lecture_slidesCMDLMS
This lecture provides an overview of the culture of health care. It defines key terms like health, disease, illness, and health care. It explains that culture refers to integrated patterns of human behavior within groups, and defines the culture of health care. The lecture outlines several themes in the literature on the culture of health care, including patient and workforce diversity and various professional cultures. It emphasizes that health care involves a complex mix of cultures that are not always apparent from within.
Unhappy customers can significantly impact a company's bottom line through negative word-of-mouth advertising and lost sales. Studies show that 68% of unhappy customers felt disinterested or indifferent, and one dissatisfied luxury car owner can cost a dealership $100 million in annual revenue from lost sales. As social media has made it easier for customers to share negative opinions, companies place high value on resolving issues with challenging customers to maintain satisfaction and minimize financial losses.
This document discusses a lecture on how health information technology (HIT) can impact patient safety culture. The lecture covers strategies for adaptive work that can be useful for HIT initiatives, including being unwavering in goals while inviting others to help achieve them, addressing real and perceived losses from changes, and assuming healthcare providers want to help patients. References are provided for images and content used in the lecture.
Introduction to Quality Improvement and Health Information TechnologyCMDLMS
This lecture discusses how health information technology (HIT) can impact quality improvement and patient safety. Well-implemented HIT has the potential to enhance safety, effectiveness, equity and other dimensions of care. However, unintended consequences can also lower quality if HIT solutions are not developed carefully. Workarounds created to adjust to new HIT systems may undermine safety if they circumvent important checks. Overall implementation of HIT requires attention to workflow, usability and avoidance of workarounds to fully realize benefits to patient care.
This document discusses pediatric preparedness for public health emergencies. It finds that only 27 of 57 emergency plans reviewed adequately addressed pediatric needs, despite national standards calling it a priority. Barriers to pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, and training. The author recommends consulting the National Commission on Children and Disasters report for guidance on improving pediatric emergency planning.
This document discusses pediatric preparedness for public health emergencies. It finds that only 27 of 57 emergency plans reviewed adequately addressed pediatric needs, despite national standards calling it a priority. Barriers to pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, and training. The author recommends consulting the National Commission on Children and Disasters report for guidance on improving pediatric emergency planning.
This document discusses pediatric emergency preparedness planning. It finds that while national standards cite pediatric planning as a priority, a review of 57 state plans found that only 27 adequately addressed pediatric needs. Barriers to improved pediatric planning included lack of funding, resources, communication, training and processes to identify gaps and access pediatric providers, especially in rural areas. The document recommends solutions to these barriers by consulting sections of the National Commission on Children and Disasters report.
Value Labs Case competition 2018 PPT - Campus FinalistsBhargava Ram
The document provides 15 references to various studies and articles on topics related to corporate wellness programs, healthcare costs, and the use of technology and telemedicine. It also includes a chart on healthcare spending from 1960 to 2016 and definitions of common insurance terminology. In the annexure section, there are additional details on hospital, physician, and prescription drug spending over time.
This lecture discusses principles of safety for health information technology (HIT). It aims to understand why medical errors occur by viewing healthcare delivery as a science and applying principles of safe design. These principles include standardizing processes, using checklists, and learning from mistakes. The lecture also emphasizes that systems, not individuals, are usually at fault when errors occur. It introduces the "Swiss cheese" model of accident causation and argues all systems will inevitably have failures so they must be designed to catch errors.
The document describes how the CDC's Science Impact Framework can be used to measure the impact of scientific work beyond just citation data. It provides three case studies that will illustrate how the framework can be applied. The framework uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure outcomes across five levels of influence: disseminating science, creating awareness, catalyzing action, effecting change, and shaping the future. The case studies will demonstrate how scientific work can have a complex path of impact that does not necessarily follow a linear progression through these levels of influence.
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In 2011, Mason General Hospital was named by
Hospitals & Health Networks
magazine as one of the “Most Wired” hospitals in the United States. What makes this particularly significant is that Mason General is a small, 25-bed, rural hospital in the state of Washington. It credits its success to nurse Eileen Branscome, director of clinical informatics. Under her leadership, the hospital adopted such innovations as visual smart boards where real-time patient information is always available. According to the magazine, those hospitals designated as “Most Wired” “show better outcomes in patient satisfaction, risk-adjusted mortality rates, and other key quality measures through the use of information technology (IT)” (Mason General Hospital and Family of Clinics, 2012).
Developments in information technology have enabled patients and health care providers to collaborate for quality improvement at an unprecedented level, and nurses have consistently been at the forefront of these efforts. This week you focus on the IOM report “To Err Is Human” and consider how health information technology has helped to address the issues of patient safety and quality health care.
References:
Weinstock, M., & Hoppszallern, S. (2011). Health care’s most wired 2011.
Hospitals & Health Network Magazine, 85
(7), 26–37.
Mason General Hospital and Family of Clinics. (2012).
MGH&FC named most wired - Again!
Retrieved from
http://www.masongeneral.com/most_wired.html
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Analyze the utilization of health information technology to address issues raised in the IOM report “To Err Is Human”
Assess the role of informatics in improving health care safety
Photo Credit: Angela Schmidt/iStock/Getty Images
Learning Resources
Note:
To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
American Nurses Association. (2015).
Nursing informatics: Scope & standards of practice
(2nd ed.). Silver Springs, MD: Author.
“Introduction”
This portion of the text introduces nursing informatics and outlines the functions of the scope and standards.
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015).
Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge
(3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chap.
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Promoting Healthy People 2010
Through Small Grants
Kari A. Hartwig, DrPH
Richard Louis Dunville, MPH
Michael H. Kim, MPH
Becca Levy, PhD
Margot M. Zaharek, MS
Valentine Y. Njike, MD, MPH
David L. Katz, MD, MPH
objectives (U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services [DHHS], 2000a). Today’s Healthy People 2010
(HP 2010) goals and objectives build on the previous
two decades’ accomplishments and set national targets
for reducing disease and disability and promoting
healthier, longer lives (DHHS, 2000b). Led by the U.S.
DHHS, the overarching goals of the current initiative
are to increase quality and years of life and to eliminate
health disparities (Davis, 2000; DHHS, 2003). DHHS
(2001) encourages working through communities and
local organizations to influence individual behavior
and the promotion and maintenance of environments
conducive to healthier lifestyles.
>>BACKGROUND
Building on the health promotion premise that orga-
nizations and communities are instruments of change
(McLeroy, Bibeau, Steckler, & Glanz, 1988; Stokols,
1992), the DHHS Office of Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion (ODPHP) initiated a pilot study in
October 2001 to develop a national model for engaging
community organizations in health promotion and dis-
ease prevention activities that reflect the national HP
2010 goals and objectives. ODPHP awarded the Healthy
People 2010 Microgrant Project, one of two pilot stud-
ies, to Yale Univer ...
CSIS 375Assignment 1 InstructionsInstructionsSelect two web.docxannettsparrow
CSIS 375
Assignment 1 Instructions
Instructions:
Select two web pages. One of the pages should be a page that you consider to be a good design. The other page should be one that you consider to be a poor design. Indicate why or why not each page represents a good or poor design. [Note: There is no right or wrong answer at this point. We will return to this exercise after you have completed several modules and compare your initial impressions with your impressions after having studied design guidelines.]
Deliverables:
1. Take a screen shot of the web page that you consider to be a poor design and paste it into a Word document. (Include its URL as a link above the screen shot.)
2. Below the screen shot, describe why you consider it to be a poor design, as well as its probable effect on the user. List a minimum of three reasons why it is a poor design and at least three likely outcomes of this poor design on usability.
3. Next, take a screen shot of the web page that you believe is a good design and paste it into the same Word document.
4. Below the screen shot, describe why you consider it to be a good design, as well as its probable effect on the user. List a minimum of three reasons why it is a good design and at least three user effects.
5. Below is an example of a “poor” design:
http://www.roanestate.edu/obs/
Summary: This whole web site is included on a single page that forces the user to have to scroll and scroll and scroll to retrieve any information.
Reasons why it is a poor design:
1. The color scheme makes it difficult to read.
2. Everything is included on a single web page, so you have to scroll and scroll to find anything.
3. Information is poorly organized. That is, it’s not divided into meaningful chunks.
Likely effects on the user:
1. The user won’t be able to easily read the information.
2. The user will have to scroll too much and possibly get “lost” on the page.
3. The user won’t be able to find what he’s looking for. He will likely get frustrated quickly and leave the site.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE 2
Department of Health and Human Service
Name: LaShanda Lewis
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Date: 16 Jan 2017
Department of Health and Human Service
Introduction
The US department of health and human service (HHS) is a principal agency responsible for protection of the health of all citizens of America and provision of human services. The HHS also has an objective of increasing access of health care services to the Americans Indians and Alaska and natives. The agency has four strategic goals that focuses on the major function of the agency. The goals include Strengthen Health Care, Advance the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of the American People and Advance Scientific Knowledge and Innovation (Strategic Goals, Objective and Strategies 2014).
The agency has 5 major events since the year 2000-2010. Publication of human sequencin.
This lecture discusses how health information technology can help facilitate error reporting and analysis to improve patient safety. It presents three key HIT mechanisms: automated surveillance systems, online event reporting systems, and predictive analytics/data modeling. The lecture also emphasizes the importance of a culture of safety that encourages open discussion and learning from mistakes without blame. Error reports are analyzed using a risk assessment model to distinguish near misses from events that cause patient harm.
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This document summarizes presentations and research from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). It discusses:
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3) SHADAC hosting a data user workshop in October to promote understanding and use of federal health survey resources.
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This lecture provides an overview of the culture of health care. It defines key terms like health, disease, illness, and health care. It explains that culture refers to integrated patterns of human behavior within groups, and defines the culture of health care. The lecture outlines several themes in the literature on the culture of health care, including patient and workforce diversity and various professional cultures. It emphasizes that health care involves a complex mix of cultures that are not always apparent from within.
Unhappy customers can significantly impact a company's bottom line through negative word-of-mouth advertising and lost sales. Studies show that 68% of unhappy customers felt disinterested or indifferent, and one dissatisfied luxury car owner can cost a dealership $100 million in annual revenue from lost sales. As social media has made it easier for customers to share negative opinions, companies place high value on resolving issues with challenging customers to maintain satisfaction and minimize financial losses.
This document discusses key principles for effective communication between support agents and customers. It emphasizes that listening is an active skill that takes effort. Both parties must be actively involved in the interaction to ensure understanding and progress towards resolution. Trust in the relationship allows for open communication, while mutual alignment of goals establishes shared expectations for resolving issues.
The document lists several challenges that were addressed and initiatives that were implemented including stopping upselling, establishing a quality control team, enforcing support tickets, creating organizational structures, identifying talent, delegating responsibilities, developing KPIs, creating autonomous customer service units, implementing various tools like WalkMe and Izenda, conducting HIPAA awareness sessions, creating a client retention unit, using Power BI for reporting, conducting in-house marketing, and creating CRs for CureX. It also shows the results of a survey on recognition, feedback, suggestions, happiness, satisfaction, wellness, ambassadorship, relationships with managers, relationships with colleagues, and company alignment for the Operations team at CureMD.
This document discusses quality improvement tools for analyzing health information technology (HIT) errors, including root cause analysis (RCA), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and hazard analysis. RCA is a structured problem-solving process that considers all potential causal factors of an incident. FMEA prospectively predicts error modes by assessing the likelihood and impact of process failures. The document provides examples of using RCA and FMEA to analyze HIT-related errors and identifies key areas of focus for HIT safety measures.
This lecture discusses learning from mistakes and errors in health information technology (HIT). It covers types of errors like slips, mistakes, active failures and latent conditions. It also examines unintended consequences of HIT like new or more work, workflow issues, overdependence on technology, and copy-paste errors. The objectives are to assess HIT for negative consequences and examine common HIT design deficiencies. References from AHRQ and other sources on error reporting and analysis in HIT are also provided.
This document discusses electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) which are designed to leverage health information technology (HIT) to improve quality measurement. eCQMs use standardized data elements and terminology to measure care quality based on information in electronic health records. Effective eCQM reporting requires structured, coded data and use of standards for measure specification, calculation, and reporting. Widespread use of eCQMs could revolutionize quality measurement by facilitating automated reporting and improving data quality.
This lecture discusses key attributes of data quality including consistency, currency, timeliness, granularity, precision, and relevancy. It provides examples of each attribute and recommendations for maintaining data integrity such as establishing data governance and defining standards for data collection. The lecture also notes that data quality is important for research and quality improvement efforts and that poor data quality can lead to errors.
This lecture discusses assessing data quality and identifies 10 key attributes of data quality: definition, accuracy, accessibility, comprehensiveness, consistency, currency, timeliness, granularity, precision, and relevancy. Poor data quality can threaten patient safety and quality of care, reduce effectiveness of decision making, and increase costs. The lecture provides examples and recommendations for ensuring each of the 10 data quality attributes.
This lecture discusses assessing data quality and improving it through health information technology (HIT). It identifies common causes of insufficient data quality, such as unclear definitions, incomplete data, and programming errors. Both systematic and random issues can negatively impact data quality. The lecture outlines best practices for preventing, detecting, and improving data quality issues. Standardizing terminology, structuring data entry, and utilizing technologies like voice recognition can enhance data quality. Overall, high quality clinical data is important for healthcare decisions, and HIT professionals can implement strategies to enhance data quality.
This document discusses strategies for implementing health information technology (HIT) systems. It compares "big bang" implementations, where a system is launched system-wide at once, to "staggered" or phased implementations. While big bang implementations have faster rollout, they carry higher risk. Staggered implementations have lower risk but slower return on investment. The document also emphasizes the importance of user training and long-term support during and after implementation to ensure success. Contextual factors like organizational culture and individual user needs must also be considered in planning. Nested implementation teams and designated super-users or internal consultants can help provide support.
The document discusses effective health IT implementation planning. It outlines characteristics of effective implementation teams, including communication, understanding roles, and practical expertise. Three key strategies for health IT implementation are reviewed: single vendor, best of breed, and best of suite. Clinical workflows and the needs of different care settings like primary care and critical access hospitals are also addressed. The goal is to assist organizations in designing customized implementation plans that meet their unique quality and safety needs.
This document discusses health information technology (HIT) and its impact on patient safety culture. It provides learning objectives on adaptive leadership, frameworks for patient safety culture, and differentiating technical and adaptive change. It also summarizes a 2013 medical error case study where a patient received a 39-fold overdose due to a 50-step error-prone process. Root causes of use errors with HIT are identified, such as patient identification errors and data accuracy errors. Frameworks for risk assessment and classifying human interaction with HIT systems are presented. The document concludes that HIT has potential to reduce errors but also introduce new opportunities for errors and overreliance on technology.
This document provides an overview of quality improvement methods and tools. It describes several common quality improvement models including the API model, Baldrige criteria, FOCUS-PDCA, PDSA cycle, ISO 9000, Kaizen, Lean thinking, and Six Sigma DMAIC. A variety of basic quality improvement tools are also outlined, such as flowcharts, cause-and-effect diagrams, control charts, Pareto charts, and checklists. Finally, potential mistakes in quality improvement initiatives are reviewed, including choosing an inappropriate topic, lack of defined roles/expectations, and failure to sustain improvements.
This document provides an overview of quality improvement methods for healthcare settings. It describes strategies for quality improvement, including the role of leadership in creating a culture that supports quality improvement. The document discusses concepts like the PDSA cycle and foundations of quality improvement developed by thinkers like Shewhart, Deming, and Juran. The goal is to introduce methods that can be used to identify and redesign processes, collect and analyze data, and make improvements to eliminate problems and strategically change healthcare systems over time.
- Alerts and reminders have the potential to improve patient safety but can also cause clinician frustration and "alert fatigue" if too many are nuisance alerts that provide little benefit.
- Successful alerts are specific, sensitive, clear, concise and support clinical workflow, allowing for safe, efficient responses. They include drug and lab alerts, practice and administrative reminders.
- Research found that drug interaction alerts, disease-drug contraindication alerts and dosing guidelines improved prescribing behaviors while unnecessary lab test repeats dropped with test result reminders.
- Clinical decision support (CDS) aims to improve healthcare decisions and outcomes by providing clinicians with relevant patient information and clinical knowledge. However, CDS has not been widely adopted by clinicians.
- Effective CDS provides the right information to the right person in the right format through the right channels at the right time. It can take many forms, including alerts, order sets, and guidelines.
- CDS helps with administrative tasks, managing clinical complexity, controlling costs, and supporting clinical decision-making. However, poor design can also lead to unintended consequences like alert fatigue.
This document discusses reliability, culture of safety, and health information technology. It explores the characteristics of high-reliability organizations and how they establish mindfulness, sensitivity to operations, reluctance to simplify problems, and other traits. The document also discusses creating a culture of safety by focusing on systems issues rather than blame, promoting a just culture, and distinguishing human error from reckless behavior. The overall goal is supporting quality improvement through reliability and safety.
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Osteoporosis - Definition , Evaluation and Management .pdfJim Jacob Roy
Osteoporosis is an increasing cause of morbidity among the elderly.
In this document , a brief outline of osteoporosis is given , including the risk factors of osteoporosis fractures , the indications for testing bone mineral density and the management of osteoporosis
These lecture slides, by Dr Sidra Arshad, offer a quick overview of the physiological basis of a normal electrocardiogram.
Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
6. Describe the flow of current around the heart during the cardiac cycle
7. Discuss the placement and polarity of the leads of electrocardiograph
8. Describe the normal electrocardiograms recorded from the limb leads and explain the physiological basis of the different records that are obtained
9. Define mean electrical vector (axis) of the heart and give the normal range
10. Define the mean QRS vector
11. Describe the axes of leads (hexagonal reference system)
12. Comprehend the vectorial analysis of the normal ECG
13. Determine the mean electrical axis of the ventricular QRS and appreciate the mean axis deviation
14. Explain the concepts of current of injury, J point, and their significance
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1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
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1. Quality Improvement
HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
Lecture a
This material (Comp 12 Unit 7) was developed by Johns Hopkins University, funded by the Department of Health
and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award
Number IU24OC000013. This material was updated in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University under Award
Number 90WT0005.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
2. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
Learning Objective — Lecture a
• Apply QI tools to the analysis of HIT
errors.
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9. National Health Care Quality
2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
2009 National Healthcare Quality Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
Courtesy HHS AHRQ Archive: http://archive.ahrq.gov/
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10. BSI Checklist
• Wash your hands.
• Clean your skin with Chlorhexidine.
• Avoid placing catheters in the groin.
• Use full barrier precautions.
• Ask every day if you still need the catheter.
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22. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
Summary — Lecture a
• Despite massive efforts, quality and safety
have not significantly improved.
• It takes teamwork and cooperation.
• National efforts to improve central line BSI
rates have been hugely successful.
• Standardization, independent checks, and
learning from every defect are keys to
success.
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23. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
References — Lecture a — 1
References
Klein, S., & McCarthy, D. (2010 April/May). A conversation with Peter Pronovost about
patient safety. Quality Matters. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Newsletters/Quality-Matters/2010/April-May-
2010/Q--A.aspx
Pronovost, P. (2010 October). Speech presented at the Legg Mason Capital
Management Thought Leader Forum.
Ross, B. (2010 January 29). Toyota CEO apologizes to his customers: ‘I am deeply
sorry.’” ABC News. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-ceo-apologizes-deeply/story?id=9700622
Charts, Tables, Figures
7.01 Figure: Key Topics. Courtesy Dr. Anna Maria Izquierdo-Porrera.
Images
Slide 3: Dr. Peter Pronovost Listens to a Patient’s Heart [Online image]. The photo was
taken during filming for Program One — "Silent Killer" at Johns Hopkins
University's Hospital and Children's Center for the RAM Campaign. Retrieved May
25, 2016, from http://www.ramcampaign.org/pages/campaign_photos.htm
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24. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
References — Lecture a — 2
Images
Slide 4: Dr. Peter Pronovost [Online image]. The photo was taken during filming for
Program One — "Silent Killer" at Johns Hopkins University's Hospital and Children's
Center for the RAM Campaign. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://www.ramcampaign.org/pages/campaign_photos.htm
Slide 6: Earthrise Over the Lunar Horizon [Online image].(NASA photo ID AS11-44-6552).
Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11.html
Slide 7: Planet Earth from the Moon [Online image]. (NASA photo ID AS11-36-5355).
Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11.html
Slide 8: A Collage of Association Logos for Agencies Involved in HIT. Image Sources,
retrieved March 2012: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
http://www.ahrq.gov/; VA National Center for Patient Safety.
http://www.patientsafety.va.gov/ World Health Organization. www.who.int; Joint
Commission. http://www.jointcommission.org/; American Medical Association.
http://www.ama-assn.org/; Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
http://www.ismp.org; Consumers Advancing Patient Safety.
http://www.patientsafety.org; ECRI Institute. https://www.ecri.org; National Patient
Safety Foundation. http://www.npsf.org; National Center for Nursing Quality.
http://www.nursingworld.org/ncnq
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25. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
References — Lecture a — 3
Images
Slide 9: 2009 National Healthcare Disparities Reports and National Healthcare Quality
Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Retrieved May
27, 2016 from: http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr09/index.html and
http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqr09/index.html
Slide 11: A Clinician Prepares a Syringe While a Patient Looks On. American Health
Information Management Association (AHIMA).
Slide 12: A Three-Point Seat Belt in a Lincoln Town Car [Online image]. Creative
Commons: Gerdbrendel. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seatbelt.jpg
Slide 13: David H. Berger, M.D., MEDVAMC Operative Care Line Executive (Left)
Prepares for Surgery with an Anesthesia Resident and Grace Campos, R. N.,
Operating Room Nurse.
Slide 14: Nurse [Online image]. Educational Resources — National Organization on Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS). Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved May 25, 2016,
from http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/training.html
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26. HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
References — Lecture a — 4
Images
Slide 15: Doctors Ronald Post (Left) and John Smear (Center) and Physician’s Assistant
Debra Blackshire Perform Laparoscopic Stomach Surgery [Online image]. Department of
Defense. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from http://www.defense.gov/Media/Photo-
Gallery?igphoto=2001242690
Slide 16: Blood Infection Checklist at Johns Hopkins. Available
from:http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org
Slide 17: Swan-Ganz-Heparin Coated Catheter. FDA.
https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/default.htm
Slide 18: Safety Score Card. The BSI Report Card – Dr. Peter Pronovost. Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Slide 19: Overview of STOP-BSI Program. Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD. Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Slide 20: The Model. Johns Hopkins Hospital. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org
Slide 21: Dr. Peter Pronovost [Online image]. Retrieved May 25, 2016, from
http://www.ramcampaign.org/pages/images/Dr_Pronovost_large.jpg
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27. Quality Improvement
HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture
Lecture a
This material (Comp 12 Unit 7) was developed
by Johns Hopkins University, funded by the
Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology under Award Number
IU24OC000013. This material was updated by
Johns Hopkins University under Award Number
90WT0005.
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Editor's Notes
Welcome to HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture. This is Lecture a.
In this lecture, we will take a deeper dive into the concept of a patient safety culture and the ways in which HIT can support and enhance this culture. In this segment, Dr. Peter Pronovost will share his very successful bloodstream infection story.
The principles underlying the success of this initiative are universal and illustrate how you, as a future HIT professional, can help to infect a patient safety culture.
This is a recording from a live presentation on October 27, 2010, at the Legg Mason Capital Management Thought Leader Forum.
The objective for this lecture of HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture is to:
Apply QI tools to the analysis of HIT errors.
Thank you everybody! You know, when I got that Genius Award, my daughter’s teacher brought in the newspaper article and said, “Oh look, class, Emma’s daddy got the Genius Award.” And my daughter, as only a kid can say, said “What are you talking about? My daddy’s not a genius. I put peanut butter on his nose, and our big yellow lab licks it off his face! What genius would do that?”
One of the themes you are going to hear me talk about this morning is humbleness. And it’s a commodity that is, I think, too rare in our organization. But frankly, without it, you can’t get started, and you certainly can’t progress on this journey, so let’s keep that in mind.
What I want to do in our time together is really three key things. One is I want to delve into, briefly, the story of the checklist so that you understand this really phenomenal success story — but it’s not as simple as the media build it out to be. Second is to understand this thing of culture and what we mean by that, and third, and perhaps most of our time, talking about what you can do to prevent projects from failing. Because if we look at our success in the implementation of quality and safety products, not just here but frankly around the globe, we have a batting average of around 10 percent. Most of them fail, and we need to dig into why that is, and perhaps you may be surprised at some of those reasons.
Let me begin with this remembering. Some of you may remember that first Apollo mission that circumnavigated the globe. Well, one of the astronauts on that mission, Rusty Schweickart, when he was flying over the Middle East, asked what it was like to fly over the Middle East from outer space.
And his words, I think, were so telling. He said, “There are no lines from outer space — we invent them. They are figments of our imagination. And yet, on Earth, we kill people over those lines.”
And I think about our efforts in this country to improve safety over the last decade. I see efforts that have been competitive more than cooperative. We have about thirty different agencies doing work, and none of them talk to each other. I see efforts that have been independent rather than interdependent — even within our own hospitals — we have silos who are working and duplicating efforts, and were not leveraging it. Most importantly, we have efforts that have been focused on what we do — the efforts rather than results we achieve.
Some of you may have read that National Health Care Quality Report, which is the scorecard, if you will, for how were doing on quality and safety in this country, that was released by AHRQ about two months ago. The bottom line is that over the last decade we are doing a lot — we’re doing a lot of “rah-rah” sessions — we may be using evidence-based medicine more — but the empiric evidence that patients are dying less or that outcomes have actually improved is virtually non-existent. Some of that is because we don’t have good measures; a lot of it is because we actually haven’t improved outcomes, and we need to rethink why that is.
Now, one different and remarkable success story is with central-line infection, so let’s begin with that story a little bit to understand what happened. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Judy well knows this, back in the early 2000, 2001, had amongst the highest blood stream infection rates in the country. We had a rate, which my own belief now is that we should have been shut down if we had that rate now, of somewhere around 11 per thousand catheter days. It was exceedingly high. And at the time, all of our docs said, “Hey, we treat sick patients; that’s the way it is. These infections are inevitable. There is nothing we can do about it. We’re trying hard.” But we questioned that. We said, “Well are we really doing the best we could?” And we went to the Center for Disease Control, who had a guideline on this, a guideline, which is, as you know, the normal way medicine summarizes evidence, that was two hundred pages long and had a hundred or so recommendations to use. Now, any of you who are clinical will know you are not doing a hundred things when you are a busy doctor or nurse or pharmacist on the wards.
So we had the, perhaps ludicrous, idea of taking that guideline and culling out from it a checklist. A list of five items that are unambiguous, that are actually do-able, and that are probably the most important things. Now, admittedly, we shot from the hip in picking what was most important. But we got some clinicians who are trained in clinical research to look at the evidence and we ended up with five simple things:
Wash your hands,
Clean your skin with Chlorhexidine,
Avoid placing catheters in the groin,
Use full barrier precautions, and
Ask every day if you still need the catheter.
Now, when we looked, we saw that our docs were doing those things 30 percent of the time — 30 percent of the time — unbelievable! And so we got into a heated argument where our docs said, ”Peter, these rates are what they are going to be — we have sick people.” I said, “Ok, let’s not argue about how low the rates can go — but let’s make sure that every patient gets these five evidence-based things because we all agree that we ought to be doing these — and let’s just see what happens.” So they said, “Ok, great.”
So we dug into it as applying the science of safety — and one of the principles of the science of safety is standardizing care. And when we looked at why we weren’t doing it, we initially fell into the traditional bad doc, bad nurse — if we whip our docs harder, they will start doing it. But what we found was that our docs had to go to eight different places to get the equipment needed to comply with that checklist. So caps were in one place, masks were in another, gowns were in another. It was no wonder why they didn’t comply because, like many of you, our docs were busy. And if they had to walk down the hall to get equipment; that was five minutes that they wouldn’t spend with another patient. In their minds, and perhaps logically, for a utilitarian approach, they said, “It’s not worth it! If I’m going to take away from another patient, I’m just going to go without the supplies.” But we should never have put them in that position. We said, “Ok, let’s get a line cart. We’ll take eight steps down to one.” We tried it in the SICU and WICU, as many of you know, and that took compliance from 30 percent up to 70-75 percent. Good — but not good enough. Our rates came down from somewhere around 11 to maybe five or so. We said, “Ok, that’s great — but docs still aren’t doing it all the time.”
Let’s apply the second principle of the science of safety, which is independent checks. So we pulled the doctors and nurses together and said, “Nurses, I would like you to assist with the doctors placing a catheter and ensure that they comply with these five steps on this checklist.” Some of our WICU and SICU nurses are here … you would have thought that I caused World War Three with that. Now, this was just a few years ago, but the culture just didn’t allow questioning physicians. And the responses from the doctors and nurses — were so interesting — which is this culture nugget.
The nurses said, “Hey, it’s not my job to police the docs, and if I do, I’m going to get my head bit off. Fascinating — the view of their scope of their authority was perhaps, I feel, comfortable advocating for psycho-social issues, but not evidence-based practice or safety and likely a really real and strong history of it not being safe to speak up because getting your head bit off is probably a daily occurrence in many of our areas.
The docs, on the other hand, were equally interesting. They pulled me aside and said, “Peter, there is no way you can have a nurse question me in public — it makes me look like I don’t know something, right?” And what was driving it was this myth that they have to be perfect. They didn’t debate the evidence; they didn’t debate should we do this; what they debated was — is it ok for someone to question me — for me to not be perfect. So fascinating psychology.
I pulled everyone together and I said, “Is it tenable that we harm patients at Johns Hopkins” — and everyone said, “No.” Without going into the psychological literature, there’s very good evidence that having people publically commit to a goal dramatically increases adherence to it. I then said, “And do you agree that the items on this checklist are sound and that every patient ought to get them” — and they said, “Yes.”
That remarkably, I mean it almost sounds like fairy dust, and indeed many of the visitors who came to our hospital would walk around the WICU or SICU and say, “This culture seems like you sprinkled fairy dust, Peter — people are working together — is it really real?” And I said, “Yes, go watch it.” The interaction isn’t confrontational. I think it’s because we changed the focus on whether I’m right or you’re right to the aligning as the patient as the North Star. We finally realized that, rather than battling each other, we’re actually on the same team. And this idea of battling is far too common.
Then I said, “If we agree on that, how could we possibly — possibly — allow a patient not to get it because of either ego or afraid of speaking up?” So nurses, I need you to speak up — your patients need you to speak up — as a patient advocate, you have to speak up. And, doctors, we have permission to make mistakes. I’m going to forget, you’re going to forget, we have permission to not remember to wash our hands. But we don’t have permission to needlessly put patients at risk, so if we forget it, it’s ok, but if the nurse sees you or whoever that checks sees you, then you have to go back and fix it because we can’t put patients needlessly at risk.
Some of you may have known that I was doing anesthesia a while ago, and I thought one of the patients had a pneumonia. And so I wanted to get a chest X-ray. It caused an uproar amongst the surgeon who was doing the case, who said, “You know this is nuts. The patient doesn’t have a pneumonia. What are you thinking?” And I said, “Yeah, I’m an intensivist. I’ve diagnosed pneumonia many times a week. I know what pneumonia is, and I think they have it.” And then went on to say, “This is just you anesthesiologists wanting to go home early. You’re making me late for clinic.” And this is all in front of the patient — completely inappropriate. And so, afterwards, we had a discussion about it afterwards, to his credit, the surgeon apologized to me, but his framing of it was so telling. What he said to me was, “You know, Peter, I didn’t mean to offend you (I had said “your remarks are completely offensive and inappropriate”), but in the heat of battle, you have to exaggerate.” And I said, “Wow, that’s a fascinating world view because I never thought we were battling. I actually thought we were on the same team.” And it’s remarkable, I think so much of our conflicts, we actually forget that we are on that same team.
Ok, so compliance now — the nurses are questioning docs — we’re up to about 95 percent compliance with the checklist, and our rates come down to maybe 2 ½ or 3 — just remarkable, remarkable success. Doctors still say there’s no way we can get any lower. I said, “I’m not sure about that — let’s apply the third principle of the science of safety, which is learn from every defect.” So we said, “Let’s start investigating each of these infections that we have to see if we can understand why.” Now, that approach does two things: perhaps most importantly, it changes the mental model from these are inevitable to these are preventable, right? Because once we start labeling them as defects, people dig into it and say, “Ok, well, they shouldn’t happen, let’s look into it and why.” And secondly, you find out what went wrong.
What did we find out? Well, when we dug into this, we found that (and Deb Hobson helped lead a lot of these investigations) many of the infections, indeed half, weren’t from lines that we had placed in the ICU, they were from lines that were placed in the operating room. We knew that because the infection developed very quickly, within two days in the ICU, and they didn’t get a new catheter placed. But we hadn’t, at the time, taken the intervention to the operating rooms, so now we had some evidence. We went to the anesthesia leaders and said, “Hey, you need to start using this approach in the operating room;, we have pretty good data that half of the infections that we have are from the catheters that you’re placing.”
We then — rates came down to maybe 2, 1.8 — we kept digging in further, and what did we find? And again, this is really our nursing leaders found that the few infections that we had now had nothing to do with the checklist, which is for placing the catheter, it had to do with how we maintained the catheter, because the infections didn’t happen within the first five days — what you would expect if its due to insertion, it happened after people had catheters for 10 days, two weeks, three weeks sometimes — in other words, not likely to do with our checklist, but, when we audited our catheter maintenance practices, what we found and — surprisingly, we had it standardized so there was wide variation and knowledge about what we do for catheter maintenance — there was wide variation in practice. It’s hard, many of the catheters are falling off; the dressings don’t stick. So we, again mostly collaborating with Nursing, got new dressings that actually stay on an IJ much better. Dick, Deb Hobson, and others developed in-services to audit our catheter maintenance so that each day we would look to see: Are the dressings intact, and we retrained the nursing staff to make sure they do it and with that, we virtually eliminated these infections.
When I say that, let me just frame this performance to you, because it’s truly breathtaking, this mindset of switching inevitable to preventable. What we found was that the cardiac SICU, which the average patient has three or so catheters, had gone over a year — I think it went to like 72 weeks without an infection. The SICU (Deb, you can correct me), I think at a time went 85 weeks; the WICU was up to 88 or so weeks — unheard of performance! Now, is that really eliminating them because, after 85 weeks, you get an infection? Well. the reality is — I don’t know — but my gut is that if you can go over a year without an infection, I suspect that the one we have is we probably got sloppy. I don’t know that for sure — maybe the patient was that sick, and they were destined to get it because there are certainly patients at high risk. But that performance was just deemed unheard of!
Now, that effort and then the subsequent effort, where some of you may be aware of, we took this program and put it in the whole state of Michigan, and, remarkably, got the same results as Michigan — essentially eliminated infection in over a hundred ICUs. I was petrified to think of scaling up a safety program that could be scaled up and made that simple to implement in hospitals that we have absolutely no relationship with. But the reality is that it worked, and we published that in the New England Journal. We then went on to do the same thing in Rhode Island; that will be published shortly. Every hospital in the state eliminated. We’re now, which is near killing me, putting it into every state in the country. We’ve launched about 38 states, and I think 44 have signed up. Within six months, Hawaii eliminated these infections, about 75 percent of the hospitals in Ohio have signed up, eliminated these infections. Half the hospitals in New Jersey signed up, eliminated these infections. Half the hospitals in Georgia signed up, eliminated the infections. It’s remarkable that this model works!
So what is this model? Well, I wish I could tell you I understand it really deeply — what happened — but I know it’s not just the checklist that the press says it is. And the reason I know that is that, when we went to go to take this out to other hospitals, I hear some very common things; I hear, “Oh, we’re using the checklist,” and I say, “Great, yeah, but the public really cares about your infection rates — I don’t really care about the checklist — what are they?” And, uniformly, the answer is either we don’t know or our rates are high. But most importantly, it’s the responses I get when I talk to nurses — and I think that this is perhaps the most indicting statement of our medical culture. In every hospital I’ve been at, quite frankly except ours, and we’ll talk about that in a second, when I ask the nurses in that hospital, ”If you were to see a doctor, especially a senior doctor, putting in a catheter and not complying with the checklist, would you speak up, and do you think the doctor would comply?” And literally in every hospital in this country, I’m laughed at as if I’m nuts. The nurses say, “Are you crazy, Peter? There is no way we have that culture to support it.”
Now, I want you to think back for a second — just take a step back. Nobody debates the evidence and the use of this darn thing, I mean, saved probably 20,000 lives this year. Thirty one thousand people die from central-line associated blood stream infections. It’s a high, high mortality of all of our central-line infections. And we tolerate a culture where we wantonly allow failure to comply with evidence-based standards because of, frankly, ego. I don’t know any other industry — ANY other industry — where we would tolerate 31,000 deaths a year when you have a solution — because of this cultural barrier. To me, it’s unconscionable — a leadership failure in our American medical system to not create that kind of culture.
So what is this model? Well, I wish I could tell you I understand it really deeply — what happened — but I know it’s not just the checklist that the press says it is. And the reason I know that is that, when we went to go to take this out to other hospitals, I hear some very common things; I hear, “Oh, we’re using the checklist,” and I say, “Great, yeah, but the public really cares about your infection rates — I don’t really care about the checklist — what are they?” And, uniformly, the answer is either we don’t know or our rates are high. But most importantly, it’s the responses I get when I talk to nurses — and I think that this is perhaps the most indicting statement of our medical culture. In every hospital I’ve been at, quite frankly except ours, and we’ll talk about that in a second, when I ask the nurses in that hospital, ”If you were to see a doctor, especially a senior doctor, putting in a catheter and not complying with the checklist, would you speak up, and do you think the doctor would comply?” And literally in every hospital in this country, I’m laughed at as if I’m nuts. The nurses say, “Are you crazy, Peter? There is no way we have that culture to support it.”
Now, I want you to think back for a second — just take a step back. Nobody debates the evidence and the use of this darn thing, I mean, saved probably 20,000 lives this year. Thirty one thousand people die from central-line associated blood stream infections. It’s a high, high mortality of all of our central-line infections. And we tolerate a culture where we wantonly allow failure to comply with evidence-based standards because of, frankly, ego. I don’t know any other industry — ANY other industry — where we would tolerate 31,000 deaths a year when you have a solution — because of this cultural barrier. To me, it’s unconscionable — a leadership failure in our American medical system to not create that kind of culture.
This concludes Lecture a of HIT’s Impact on a Patient Safety Culture. In summary, despite massive efforts, health care quality and safety have not significantly improved. It takes teamwork and cooperation to achieve lasting improvement. There have been pockets of success, most notably with respect to national efforts to improve central-line blood stream infection rates. Keys to success in that initiative have been three of the science of safety principles: standardization, independent checks, and learning from every defect.