AHA

Hear from quality and critical care experts on how changing clinical practice to promote a culture that consistently implements evidence-based practices can result in improved patient outcomes and reduced costs. The discussion will include key intelligence from On the CUSP: Stop HAI projects on reducing health care acquired infections.

After experiencing poor provider compliance with its Surviving Sepsis Campaign clinical guidelines, Cape Regional Medical Center, a 242-bed community hospital in New Jersey, implemented a simulation-based sepsis performance improvement program. The change resulted in improved health care provider compliance with the sepsis evidence-based guidelines and decreased patient acuity.

You Will Learn How:

• An innovative, integrated approach to performance improvement is the key to accelerating the implementation of guidelines
• Individual health care provider knowledge and accountability to sepsis evidence-based practice is critical to patient care
• To Increase staff compliance with sepsis evidence-based practices
• To lower patient acuity from early recognition and improved treatment