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THE BEST PRACTICE
How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
CHARLES KENNEY |
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SUMMARY | EXTRAS
When hospitals and clinics adopt best practices, they see results:
At Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the rate of central line
infections dropped from forty-nine per year to zero in just four years.
Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle used lessons learned from
Toyota to implement a "stop the line" program. Any staff member who
feels a patient's health is in danger during a procedure can trigger a
Patient Safety Alert (PSA) and halt the process. There have been
approximately 9,000 PSAs since the program's inception.
At Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the rate of hospital-acquired
infections in surgeries dropped from 4 percent to 0.4 percent—a level
previously thought of as impossible to achieve.
Kaiser Permanente in California creates an Electronic Medical Record system, and every doctor has their patient's history at their fingertips. Clinicians used to spend 15 percent of their time looking for records and charts—now that time is free for the patients.
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ISBN 978-1-58648-619-8
Pub date: 07/21/08
Price: $26.95/28.95 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
304 pages
Carton Quantity: 24
Business, Medicine
Selling Territory: W
Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio, Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs
Performance Rights: Sterling Lord Literistic
PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1586487973
Pub date: 03/04/10
Price: $15.95/20.00 Canada
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
336 pages
Carton Quantity: 44
Business, Medicine
Selling Territory: W
Pub history: 978-1586486198
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