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IHI launches newest quality improvement campaign

Patient Safety Monitor Alert, December 17, 2008

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Piggybacking on its predecessors, the "100,000 Lives" and "5 Million Lives" campaigns, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) latest quality improvement effort, the "Improvement Map," adds new initiatives for hospitals to take part in to improve patient care. Introduced at the 20th annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare last week in Nashville, TN, the Improvement Map hopes to incorporate and move beyond some of the earlier interventions, which mostly focused on preventing unnecessary death within hospitals.

Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, president of the IHI, introduced the Improvement Map to forum attendees, highlighting three new interventions that have been immediately added to the existing 12 from previous campaigns. These are:

• Improving patient safety by linking financial strategies to quality improvement projects
• Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections
• Implementing the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist to prevent surgical errors

Berwick challenged attendees to "the sprint," by asking them to implement the surgical safety checklist in one operating room in every hospital in the country within the next 90 days to have an immediate effect on patient safety. Other interventions will be added in the coming months to the new campaign.

To find out more about this campaign, click here.

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