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WIHI-Greater Satisfaction Outcomes and Savings with Self-Administered Care
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July 13, 2017 | Patients undergoing dialysis typically do so in a hospital or health care facility. Most people don't question the need to have experienced health care staff on hand or what's considered a safe environment for the treatments. But that might be changing.
WIHI: How to Fail Forward (Quickly) On the Road to Population Health
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June 29, 2017 | Learning from failure is an important part of the quality improvement process in health care. Groups focused on improving the health of communities are also discovering the value of "failing forward;" leveraging the learning from failure to accelerate progress
Evaluating Complex Health Interventions: A Guide to Rigorous Research Designs
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This publication describes a range of research design approaches that can be used to enhance the rigor of evaluations, thereby improving the quality of the evidence upon which decisions are made and ultimately improving the public’s health.
Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance
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Team-based collaboration of safety and financial leaders is necessary to successfully create and present business cases to advance safety initiatives. This toolkit includes specific recommendations and practices for a Safety–Finance Team and provides a framework for understanding, framing, and advancing patient and workforce safety.
Health Care Providers Must Act Now to Address the Prescription Opioid Crisis
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While a community-wide approach is also needed to effectively address the opioid crisis, the authors describe some key actions that both providers and organizations can take to begin making a difference, including changing provider prescribing practices.
Health Care Leaders: "Bill or No Bill, We Still Have Work to Do"
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In this NEJM Catalyst article, several members of the IHI Leadership Alliance write, “Bill or no bill, we still need to move forward and continue our focus on improving health and health care for our patients and our communities while reducing costs” (the IHI Triple Aim).
WIHI: How to Beat the Boring Aspects of QI
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June 14, 2017 | Learning from failure is an important part of quality improvement in health care. But what can we learn from improvement efforts that languish or stall due to the inglorious nature of the work itself?
The Value of Teaching Patients to Administer Their Own Care
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Some patients are learning how to administer their own treatments outside of the health care setting — from pain management, to dialysis, to intravenous antibiotics. This article describes five keys to a successful approach to implementing patient-administered self-care and provides examples of organizations that have established such initiatives.
Patient-Administered Self-Care
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For specific procedures and treatments, health care providers can train individuals to administer their own self-care, on their own time, without supervision or dependence on a licensed professional. Patient-administered self-care can occur either in traditional health care facilities or another location of the patient's choosing outside of a facility.
WIHI: The Digital Transformation: How Technology Is Helping (and Hurting) Health Care
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June 1, 2017 | Technology is everywhere in health care. It's fast, it's efficient, and it can reduce errors. But, technology is not a cure-all. It can make people complacent, introduce new errors, and get in the way of meaningful face-to-face interactions.
WIHI: Seven Popular Improvement Tools: How (and When) to Use Them
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May 18, 2017 | Make sure you’re getting the most out of key improvement tools like PDSA, run chart and control chart, driver diagram, and more — and know when to use them in your improvement work.
ACA and AHCA: Don Berwick Breaks It Down
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Dr. Don Berwick. Berwick, IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, explains the changing health care landscape in terms that are both simple and comprehensive. What’s the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? If it’s “repealed and replaced” by the American Health Care Act (ACHA), what will change? What is the difference between the two?
Driver Diagram
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A driver diagram is a visual display of a team’s theory of what “drives,” or contributes to, the achievement of a project aim. This clear picture of a team’s shared view is a useful tool for communicating to a range of stakeholders where a team is testing and working.
Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit
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IHI’s QI Essentials Toolkit features ten tools you need to launch and manage a successful improvement project, including instructions, an example, and a blank template for each tool.
WIHI: The High Stakes of Health Care Policy
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May 3, 2017 | A lot of the quality and safety improvements that have taken place in recent years in the US have occurred regardless of what's happening in Washington, DC. While political debates rage on, the health care quality improvement movem​​ent continues to move ahead.
Does a Quality Improvement Campaign Accelerate Take-up of New Evidence? IHI’s Project JOINTS
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IHI’s Project JOINTS initiative engaged a network of state-based organizations and professionals in a six-month QI campaign to promote adherence to three evidence-based practices to reduce surgical site infection (SSI) after joint replacement.
Breaking the Rules for Better Care
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IHI Leadership Alliance member organizations asked their patients and staff, “If you could break or change any rule in service of a better care experience for patients or staff, what would it be?” This article summarizes the most frequent suggestions.
Better Care for Complex Needs
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For individuals with complex health and social needs, high utilization rates (and their associated costs), poor outcomes, and low satisfaction scores indicate that current care systems are not meeting their needs. This article describes five key priorities for health care leaders to consider as their organizations endeavor to improve care for high-need, high-cost individuals.
WIHI: Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems
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April 20, 2017 | Best practices for older or elderly patients aren’t always top of mind, and practitioners don't always know how they might do things differently. Now, a small group of health systems is about to test some new, evidenced-based interventions that promise to model for the rest of the industry.
WIHI: Who's Your Health Care Proxy?
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April 6, 2017 | Situations may arise when we need a trusted person to communicate with doctors and nurses on our behalf. And, if facing care decisions near the end of life, a trusted health care proxy can play a crucial role in ensuring our wishes are respected.
WIHI: What We're Learning about Patients with Complex Needs
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March 23, 2017 | There’s a lot of attention being paid to developing new models to care for and support patients with multiple, complex health problems. And for good reason.
WIHI: The Right Care, Right Setting, and Right Time of Hospital Flow
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March 9, 2017 | Making sure patients get the right care, in the right place, at the right time requires a number of underlyi​ng system improvements, including well-designed hospital flow.
Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer
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Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer, describes some of IHI’s global work that is helping to improve health and health care worldwide.
WIHI: Claiming the Edge with Quality Improvement in Communities
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February 23, 2017 | Communities in Wisconsin, Scotland, and Boston are building coalitions to change the trajectory of people’s lives and health for the better. Using quality improvement methods and tools to tackle socioeconomic issues is proving to be a game changer in all three locations.
Reliably Addressing "What Matters" Through a Quality Improvement Process
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A practical quality improvement approach can help to ensure that processes are in place to assist nurses in devoting time to reliably inquire about “what matters” to each patient at every encounter
  
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