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IHI Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Current average rating is 3 stars.
This tool includes a list of potential adverse event (AE) triggers and instructions for collecting the data you need to measure either the rate of AEs or the percentage of admissions with an AE in your NICU.
Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Drug Events in a Mental Health Setting
Current average rating is 4 stars.
This Trigger Tool, developed for use with mental health inpatients, includes a list of known adverse drug event triggers in mental health settings and provides instructions for conducting a retrospective review of patient records using these triggers to identify possible ADEs.
IHI Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Drug Events
Current average rating is 5 stars.
A method for using "triggers," or clues, in patient records to identify ADEs that may not have been reported through traditional mechanisms).
Introduction to Trigger Tools for Identifying Adverse Events
Current average rating is 5 stars.
The use of triggers, or clues, to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm from medical care in a health care organization.
IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events
Current average rating is 3 stars.
The use of "triggers," or clues, to identify adverse events (AEs) is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm in a health care organization.
10 IHI Innovations to Improve Health and Health Care
Current average rating is 5 stars.
This curated publication highlights 10 ideas that have emerged from IHI's systematic 90-day innovation approach, including reflections on the Triple Aim, the concept of a health care Campaign, the Breakthrough Series Collaborative model, and other frameworks and fresh thinking that have been replicated around the world.
IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events (Second Edition)
Current average rating is 5 stars.
This white paper provides information on the development and methodology of the IHI Global Trigger Tool, enabling the ability to accurately identify adverse events and measure the rate of adverse events over time.
IHI Global Trigger Tool Training Resources
Current average rating is 3 stars.
A suggested plan and resources to help train reviewers on the IHI Global Trigger Tool methodology.
Training Record Set for IHI Global Trigger Tool
Current average rating is 4 stars.
Use this Training Record Set to train new reviewers how to use the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events.
WIHI: The Power to Detect and Reduce Harm: IHI’s Global Trigger Tool and Adverse Events in the US
Current average rating is 4 stars.
October 21, 2010 | This WIHI provides a window into research findings from a series of reports from the Office of Inspector General and their significance for patient safety, harm detection, improvement work, and policy reform going forward. The IHI Global Trigger Tool for identifying adverse events is also a focus of the discussion.
WIHI: The Power to Detect and Improve: Revisiting the IHI Global Trigger Tool and Adverse Events
Current average rating is 0 stars.
April 14, 2011 | The authors discuss a new study in Health Affairs that finds that the IHI Global Trigger Tool identified at least ten times more confirmed, serious events than other methods.
Development of a Trigger Tool to Identify Adverse Events and Harm in Emergency Medical Services
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This article describes the development and implementation of the Emergency Medical Services Trigger Tool (EMSTT), a sampling strategy similar to the Global Trigger Tool with EMS-specific triggers, to identify and measure adverse events and harm over time in the Emergency Medical Services setting.
Performance of the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) Tool
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This study's objective was to develop and test the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) trigger tool, which measures hospital-wide rates of adverse events (AEs) and preventable AEs. The study found that the GAPPS tool reliably identifies AEs among pediatric inpatients and can be used to guide and monitor quality and safety improvement efforts.
IHI Outpatient Adverse Event Trigger Tool
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This tool is used to identify outpatient-related adverse events using specifically defined "triggers" (or clues).
Pediatric Trigger Toolkit: Measuring Adverse Drug Events in the Children’s Hospital
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This tool provides a powerful yet simple method to detect medication-related harm in pediatric inpatients.
IHI Skilled Nursing Facility Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events
Current average rating is 4 stars.
The IHI Skilled Nursing Facility Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events provides an easy-to-use method for accurately identifying adverse events (harm) and measuring the rate of adverse event incidence over time in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
IHI Perinatal Trigger Tool
Current average rating is 0 stars.
The Perinatal Trigger Tool provides instructions for conducting a retrospective review of patient records using triggers to identify possible adverse events causing any physical harm to the infant or mother.
Passport Exclusive: Improvement Skills to Empower Front Line Nurses I
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This recording discusses Developing a Sensitivity to Risk, including many tools that can help uncover and reduce risk and patient harm.
Pursuing Perfection: Report from McLeod on Improving Medication Safety
Current average rating is 5 stars.
McLeod Regional Medical Center, a member of IHI's Pursuing Perfection program, improves their rate of medication errors by making numerous changes in their care methods beginning with a top-down change in culture.
Signal and Noise: Applying a Laboratory Trigger Tool to Identify Adverse Drug Events among Primary Care Patients
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This study tests the use of six abnormal laboratory triggers for detecting adverse drug events among adults in outpatient care.
Deciphering Harm Measurement
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This article looks at several current approaches to measuring harm.
Passport Exclusive: Improvement Skills to Empower Front-Line Nurses II
Current average rating is 0 stars.
This recording discusses Managing Patient Care Risk: Beyond the Checklist. How does the front-line nurse engage her team, foster communication, and improve teamwork — the three requirements for effective use of a checklist?
Saving lives by studying deaths: Using standardized mortality reviews to improve inpatient safety
Current average rating is 5 stars.
Substantial variation existed in hospital standardized mortality ratios (HSMRs) across hospitals in the Kaiser Permanente system. In 2008, multidisciplinary teams at KP used the IHI Global Trigger Tool, along with other tools, to investigate hospital-level mortality in order to identify patterns of potential harm and focus improvement efforts.
Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care
Current average rating is 5 stars.
A retrospective study of a stratified random sample of 10 hospitals in North Carolina.
Improvement Tip: Focus on Harm, Not Errors
Current average rating is 5 stars.
While alarm continues to mount over the high number of unintended medical errors that occur in health care institutions, IHI is working with patient safety leaders to shift the focus away from counting errors. What really matters is the harm that patients suffer — some of it due to errors, but most of it resulting from flawed systems within which highly skilled providers operate.
  
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