HAI improvement initiative wins over skeptic
Accreditation Connection, February 13, 2009
When his facility initiated a project to improve healthcare-acquired infections (HAI) in the intensive care unit (ICU), Manoj Jain, MD, was skeptical—HAIs were a part of life in the ICU, and a risk that came as part of the extensive and often life-altering processes and procedures patients underwent there, Jain says in an opinion piece for the Washington Post.
In his column, Jain, medical director the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Tennessee quality improvement organization and adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, says that while he was at first doubtful, his facility saw a 50% drop in ICU infection rates and a 21% drop in cost per ICU discharge.
To read more about his experience, click here.
For more coverage on this and other topics, check out the Patient Safety Monitor blog.
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