Improving surgical site infections: using National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data to institute Surgical Care Improvement Project protocols in improving …

CM Berenguer, MG Ochsner Jr, SA Lord… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
… collected prospectively from 2006 to 2008. Superficial SSI in … report from July 2007 to June
2008. Specifically, data from the … The comparative results with SCIP compliance are found in …

A quality improvement project to increase breast milk use in very low birth weight infants

HC Lee, PS Kurtin, NE Wight, K Chance… - …, 2012 - publications.aap.org
… process management for the collaborative, communicated progress to site-specified leaders
on an ongoing basis, and produced final deliverables describing the results of the project. …

Implementation of an evidence-based extubation readiness bundle in 499 brain-injured patients. A before–after evaluation of a quality improvement project

A Roquilly, R Cinotti, S Jaber, M Vourc'h… - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
… The standardization of medical care has been shown to improve … Some of the results of this
study have been previously … This result did not contradict our conclusion based on individual …

How to begin a quality improvement project

SA Silver, Z Harel, R McQuillan… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in a project and … who can affect your quality
improvement project at an early stage … Eventually, large-scale lessons are learned as the results

The agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project (AgMIP): protocols and pilot studies

C Rosenzweig, JW Jones, JL Hatfield… - Agricultural and forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
… The goals of AgMIP are to improve substantially the characterization of world food security
… crops is described, along with project milestones. Pilot results demonstrate AgMIP's role in …

Adherence to surgical care improvement project measures and the association with postoperative infections

JJ Stulberg, CP Delaney, DV Neuhauser, DC Aron… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
… data were based on early clinical trials yielding results on the efficacy of these actions,
and … Our results are consistent with previous findings regarding public report of process-of-care …

Association of surgical care improvement project infection-related process measure compliance with risk-adjusted outcomes: implications for quality measurement

AM Ingraham, ME Cohen, KY Bilimoria… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
… number of patients for calculating comparative results. … 1, 2008, and December 30, 2008.
Of the 200 ACS NSQIP hospitals represented in this study, 189 were included in the 2008

Application of quality improvement strategies in 389 European hospitals: results of the MARQuIS project

M Lombarts, I Rupp, P Vallejo, R Suñol… - BMJ Quality & …, 2009 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
… However, the results of our validation process strongly suggest that the reported results
are fairly accurate. Further, translation of the questionnaire, the use of jargon, and the …

An increase in compliance with the Surgical Care Improvement Project measures does not prevent surgical site infection in colorectal surgery

C Pastor, A Artinyan, MG Varma, E Kim… - Diseases of the colon …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… As a result of these efforts, there was a significant increase in … the specific interventions as
a result of the team's efforts, our … in documentation and what to improvement in patient care. …

Evidence for the impact of quality improvement collaboratives: systematic review

LMT Schouten, MEJL Hulscher, JJE Van Everdingen… - Bmj, 2008 - bmj.com
… -MeSH) “quality and improvement and collaborative” or “(series or project) and breakthrough”
(… Limitations should be considered in interpreting the results of this review. Firstly, as in any …