Key Drivers in Reducing Hospital-acquired Pressure Injury at a Quaternary Children’s Hospital

Autor: Ling Loh, Andrea K. Johnson, Jessey Bargmann-Losche, Marie Hamilton, Kristine Taylor, Jenna F Kruger, Lane F. Donnelly, Amy M Chapman, Sarah Ferrari, Melissa B Weisse
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Pediatric Quality & Safety
ISSN: 2472-0054
Popis: Introduction: Despite being a participating Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) children’s hospital and having attempted implementation of the SPS hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) prevention bundle, our hospital remained at a HAPI rate that was 3 times the mean for SPS participating children’s hospitals. This performance led to the launch of an enterprise-wide HAPI reduction initiative in our organization. The purpose of this article is to describe the improvement initiative, the key drivers, and the resulting decrease in the SPS-reportable HAPI rate. Methods: We designed a hospital-wide HAPI reduction initiative with actions grouped into 3 key driver areas: standardization, data transparency, and accountability. We paused all individual hospital unit-based HAPI reduction initiatives. We calculated the rate of SPS-reportable HAPIs per 1,000 patient days during both the pre- and postimplementation phases and compared mean rates using a 2-sided t test assuming unequal variances. Results: The mean SPS-reportable HAPI rate for the preimplementation phase was 0.3489, and the postimplementation phase was 0.0609. The difference in rates was statistically significant (P < 0.00032). This result equates to an 82.5% reduction in HAPI rate. Conclusions: Having an institutional pause and retooled initiative to reduce HAPI with key drivers in the areas of standardization, data transparency, and accountability had a statistically significant reduction in our organization’s SPS-reportable HAPI rate.
Databáze: OpenAIRE