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Training a must to save 100,000 lives by 2006

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 3, 2005

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Health leaders have teamed up with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in a crusade to prevent 100,000 hospital-caused deaths in the United States by June 2006. To achieve this goal, healthcare officials say workers need to adopt safety precautions as standardized practice through simple training measures such as checklists and guidelines. The medical director of quality at a Washington-based health system says that practices to improve patient outcomes, such as reconciling medication, giving all heart attack patients aspirin, and elevating patients' heads to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia requires organization-wide training. For example, with proper training, a housekeeper might notice when a ventilator patient is not properly reclined. Since the program's inception in December 2004, more than 2,000 hospitals have joined the IHI's patient safety initiative.

Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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