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Follow-Up Orders Save Lives
Adhering to important guidelines to keep patients safe and healthy after surgery was high after this team educated staff and coordinated with pharmacists and other teams to ensure compliance.
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Why This Matters
- VTE prophylaxis helps prevent post-operative complications.
Test of Change
- Coordinating with pharmacies to keep with SCIP guidelines
How to Improve Telemetry Monitoring
By tightening up processes and communication, this telemetry team improved the way it monitors patients.
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Why This Matters
- A patient deprived of oxygen for 4 to 6 minutes can suffer brain damage.
Test of Change
- Creating reminders for staff to check monitors
This Test Saves Lives
The internal medicine unit emphasized the value of taking the colorectal screening test, and identified at-risk patients whenever they come into the office.
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Why This Matters
- Ensuring the patients take the test and return it is critical to early screening.
Test of Change
- Labeling the test as life-saving can increase patient compliance
Better, Affordable Care
Cut an average of a day off the length of patient stays.
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Why This Matters
- Patients get to go home sooner.
Test of Change
- Track and standardize patient mobility protocols