This session will include a series of short,
energetic presentations by different IHI experts centered on the theme
of reducing patient harm. By the end of this session participants will
have gained insights in to practical examples of improvement in quality
and safety. Presentations will include:
Sepsis Reduction
Kaiser Permanente reports a dramatic reduction in
risk adjusted hospital mortality and a significant reduction in use of
inpatient beds. One reason is the successful implementation of the
sepsis initiative - which resulted in a thousand lives saved and a
million lives improved.
Speaker:
Alide Chase
Senior Vice President
Medicare Clinical Operations and Population Care
Kaiser Permanente
Medication Safety
Medications cause more harm than any other single
therapy or treatment. The reasons are many; it is a complex sequence of
events with multiple steps, where the reliability of each step is
dependent on the success of the previous step. New technology improves
certain error-prone actions and creates new opportunities for error at
the same time. There are approaches we can use to keep our patients
safe.
Speaker:
Carol Haraden, PhD
Vice President, IHI
Surgical Safety
Increased standardization can improve outcomes
for surgical patients. The concept of "enhanced recovery" will be
discussed, as well as the particular challenges faced by patients
undergoing emergency surgery.
Speaker:
Carol Peden, MD, MB ChB
Associate Medical Director for Quality Improvement
and Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Royal United Hospital, Bath
Transmission of organisms that cause hospital
acquired infections can occur in many ways: caregiver-to-patient,
environment-to-patient, or patient-to-patient. This presentation will
highlight programs that have been successful in reducing hospital
acquired infections by making it a strategic imperative - focusing on
improving multiple interventions, such as hand hygiene, use of contact
and other precautions, active screening, and robust decontamination
rather than relying on a single approach.
