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How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based interventions for preventing surgical site infection for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement. |
How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infections
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| This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for preventing surgical site infections, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement. |
Effectiveness of a Multistate Quality Improvement Campaign in Reducing Risk of Surgical Site Infections Following Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This article provides an assessment of IHI’s Project JOINTS initiative, a multistate QI campaign to promote adoption of evidence-based practices to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) following hip and knee arthroplasty. |
Changes to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
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| Organizations must test and implement changes to existing processes in order to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). |
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. |
A Surgeon Talks about Using Alcohol-Based Skin Prep to Prevent SSI
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| This video offers a surgeon’s perspective on using an alcohol-based antiseptic agent for preoperative skin preparation to reduce the risk of surgical site infection from joint replacement surgery, one the evidence-based interventions recommended in IHI's How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. |
One Is Too Many: Viewing Infection Data from the Patient's Perspective
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| A surgical patient who contracted MRSA following knee replacement surgery describes the effects of the surgical site infection (SSI) on her life, and how her experience led her health care providers to make changes to prevent SSIs. |
Project JOINTS: What Factors Affect Bundle Adoption in a Voluntary Quality Improvement Campaign?
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| This article examines how hospital adherence to quality improvement (QI) methods and hospital engagement with a large-scale QI campaign — Project JOINTS, an IHI-led initiative — could facilitate the adoption of an enhanced prevention bundle designed to reduce surgical site infection (SSI) rates after orthopaedic surgery (hip and knee arthroplasty). |
Preventing Infection After Hip and Knee Replacements
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| IHI's Project JOINTS initiative is helping to speed the adoption of proven practices to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) after hip and knee replacement surgery. This article describes simple, affordable, evidence-based practices organizations can put into place to reduce such infections. |
The Business Case, A Brief for Hospital Administrators: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| Among surgical procedures, arthroplastic (hip and knee) surgeries are key high-cost, high-volume surgeries targeted for surgical site infection (SSI) prevention. This document describes some of the financial implications of SSIs after hip and knee replacement and makes the business case for prevention. |
CHG Bathing Patient Flyer: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This customizable, educational poster/flyer can be used to inform patients that you encourage them to bathe or shower with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) soap to reduce the risk of surgical site infections from hip and knee arthroplasty. |
Integrated Care Pathway for Total Joint Arthroplasty
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| This Care Pathway provides recommended ideas to improve care for patients receiving total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and includes safe, effective, efficient, and patient-centered TJA care processes. The Pathway is designed for use by all members of the orthopaedic community who are responsible for the TJA process, including those at surgical practices, hospitals, and other care settings. |
How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection — Pediatric Supplement
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| This How-to Guide tailored specifically for pediatrics describes key evidence-based care components for preventing surgical site infections, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement. |
How-to Guide: Reduce Surgical Complications — Pediatric Supplement
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| This How-to Guide tailored specifically for pediatrics describes key evidence-based care components for reducing surgical complications, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement. |
How-to Guide: Reduce Surgical Complications
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| This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for reducing surgical complications, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement. |
Reducing Surgical Complications for Elective Surgery Inpatients
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| Sioux Falls VA Medical Center decreased the surgical complication rate in the elective surgery inpatient population by 50 percent in less than 12 months by focusing on improved perioperative teamwork and communication and increasing compliance with the infection, venous thromboembolism, and SCIP cardiac measures. |
Guideline Writers Issue Advisory Statement
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| The authors of all current North American surgical infection prevention guidelines, along with professional organizations that are involved in surgical care, released a joint advisory statement on infection prevention. This advisory statement provides an overview of other issues related to antimicrobial prophylaxis, including specific suggestions regarding antimicrobial selection. |
Reducing Healthcare-Associated MRSA Infections on a Surgical Unit
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| St. John's Regional Health Center (Springfield, Missouri, USA) reduced hospital-acquired infections through their work in an IHI Learning and Innovation Community |
It’s Hip to Get the Antibiotic In
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| Jewish Hospital Downtown (Louisville, Kentucky, USA) implemented processes resulting in 479 days without hip prosthesis surgery wound infection. |
Developing a Reliable System to Improve Peri-Operative Antibiotic Administration
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| Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Massachusetts, USA) has designed a reliable system using multi-pronged team interventions to administer and discontinue prophylactic antibiotics, leading to consistent national top decile performance. |
Reducing Surgical Site Infections: Mercy Health Center
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| Mercy Health Center (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA) reduced post-surgery infections by 78 percent in one year by redesigning systems of care using rapid cycle improvement. |
Improvement Report: Promoting Quality Through Prevention of Infection
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| Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Massachusetts, USA) focused on decreasing morbidity and mortality associated with postoperative infection in the surgical patient population. |
Flyer of Participation: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This customizable poster/flyer can be used to communicate to your patients that you are focused on reducing surgical site infections for hip and knee arthroplasty. |
One-Pager for Surgeons: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This one-pager for surgeons provides a summary of the evidence behind the interventions to prevent surgical site infection for hip and knee arthroplasty. |
Data Tracker Worksheet: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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| This Excel spreadsheet is designed to aid in tracking compliance with implementing the interventions recommended in the IHI How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. |
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