A Quality Improvement (QI) team is measuring the rate of catheter associated urinary tract infections after surgery. The current hospital rate is at 10%. The QI team plans to implement a series of interventions to decrease the rate of infections including standard protocol for insertion of catheters, routine discontinuation of catheters post-operatively and avoidance of prophylactic antibiotic use. The QI team cannot agree on a target goal for reducing the infection rate at 12 months. What should the quality improvement team do at this point?+
Answer: The quality improvement team should benchmark with top performing hospitals. This will enable the quality improvement team to make decision regarding the target infections. The generic benchmarking includes about the hospitals those employed better method to improve the quality of care and different ideas to decrease the rate of the infection. The benchmarking of the top hospitals can bring out better change towards quality improvement.
A Quality Improvement (QI) team is measuring the rate of catheter associated urinary tract infections after...