Prepared by IPRO QIN-QIO
This resource is designed for use in any facility by staff or a healthcare provider to improve cross-setting management of pain management during transitions of care, to prevent adverse drug events and subsequently reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions.
IPRO NQIIC
It is well known that effective care transitions help reduce readmissions and are essential to patient safety. Yet, many organizations struggle with structures and processes that depend on collaboration across the continuum of care. The purpose of these mini-series sessions is to share evidence-based interventions and best practices to reduce readmissions. Speakers will provide guidance and education on specific readmissions reduction strategies. Participants will learn how to reduce readmissions and sustain their practices. They will also be challenged to reconsider aggregated readmissions rates as a measure of program effectiveness.
Prepared by IPRO
The Dialysis and Nursing Home Hand-off Communication Tool provides a framework for communication between dialysis facilities and skilled nursing facilities to ensure a safe transition to and from dialysis that includes prompts for follow-up to changes in a resident’s plan of care.
Prepared by IPRO HQIC
The June PFE Learning and Action Event focuses on ways the implementation of patient and family advisory councils, or the inclusion of patient and family advisors on hospital committees, can be applied to your hospital’s efforts to reduce unplanned readmissions.
This material was prepared by Telligen in partnership with IPRO HQIC, the Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This is the second session in a two-part series webinar on Sepsis from September 30th. View the recording, as well as the questions and answers presentation slide deck.
This session focuses on preventing sepsis-related harm and avoidable readmissions using effective care coordination and hand-off strategies to the next level of care provider.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
These quick reference guides were created to help you understand, modify, and interpret your data using the NHSN application’s various analysis output (report) options for the NHSN Patient Safety Component. These guides serve as companions to the “Introduction to NHSN Analysis” training slide set.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The NHSN application provides various options that allow NHSN users to analyze their surveillance data. The resources listed on the link above are intended to help you use the analysis tool, and interpret data analyzed from the Patient Safety Component of NHSN.
This material was prepared by American Institutes for Research (AIR). It is redistributed by IPRO HQIC, a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“HOW TO PREPARE FOR A SAFE HOSPITAL STAY”
This resource is a planning checklist for Spanish speaking patients to use prior to admission to the hospital, while admitted, and before they leave the hospital
This material was prepared by American Institutes for Research (AIR). It is redistributed by IPRO HQIC, a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“HOW TO PREPARE FOR A SAFE HOSPITAL STAY”
This resource is a planning checklist for patients to use prior to admission to the hospital, while admitted, and before they leave the hospital
IPRO HQIC
This resource explains what All-Cause Harm is, why it is important, and then dives into each of the processes it takes to prevent All-Cause Harm. Eight priority focus areas for the Hospital Quality Improvement Contract (HQIC) are illuminated and strategies to monitor compliance are provided.
All-Cause Harm Resource, Recording and Slides from the IPRO HQIC All-Cause Harm “launch” on March 29th, 2021.
Project RED is supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHBLI), the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Hospital based care transition model that coordinates the patient’s discharge plan throughout the hospitalization and then provides a post-acute discharge guide and follow-up telephone calls.
Project Re-Engineered Discharge is a research group at Boston University Medical Center that develops and tests strategies to improve the hospital discharge process in a way that promotes patient safety and reduces re-hospitalization rates. The RED (re-engineered discharge) intervention is founded on 12 discrete, mutually reinforcing components and has been proven to reduce rehospitalizations and yields high rates of patient satisfaction. Virtual patient advocates are currently being tested in conjunction with the RED. In addition, Project RED has started to implement the re-engineered discharge at other hospitals serving diverse patient populations. We are also looking at the transitional needs from inpatient to outpatient care of specific populations (i.e., those with depressive symptoms). Finally, we are about to start a patient-centered project to create a tool that hospitals can use to discover factors (i.e., medical legal, social, etc.) in patients’ readmissions.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Chart Reviews of Patients Who Were Readmitted: This Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tool is one of those that we recommend for hospitals.
Conduct chart reviews of the last five readmitted patients. Reviewers should be physicians or nurses from the hospital and community settings. Reviewers should not look to assign blame, but rather to discover opportunities to improve the care of patients.
