Cohort 1
Linking Blood Stream Infection Rates to Intensive Care
Johns Hopkins University
David Thompson and Jill Marsteller
The goal of this study was to implement a comprehensive safety program including an evidence-based intervention to reduce centralline-associated bloodstream infections while examining the context of nursing care delivery on patient outcomes. This interdisciplinary research team used the expertise of nurses to develop and deliver a quality improvement initiative that reflects the positive clinical contributions of nurses in the critical care setting. This study is likely to inform other nurse-led medical error reduction interventions and contribute to the quality improvement literature and the science of rigorously evaluated evidence-based interdisciplinary nursing practice.
Nurse-Sensitive Measurement of Hospital Care Coordination
Emory University
Gerri Lamb and Francois Sainfort
An interdisciplinary team of nurse scientists and system engineers developed a new tool to capture what nurses do when they coordinate care for hospitalized patients. The tool, the first of its kind, will enable nurses and hospitals to document this important nursing work and will lead to a better understanding of how to improve care coordination and the quality of patient care in hospitals.
Improving the NQF Failure to Rescue Metric
Mayo Clinic
Marcelline Harris and Jack Needleman
Led by scholars in nursing and health services research and informatics, the goal of this interdisciplinary team was to refine one of the most controversial measures of nursing-sensitive quality of care: failure to rescue. Refinement of this measure is expected to result in a measure of the quality of nursing care that is more likely to be used for quality improvement, public accountability, and pay for performance.