IHI - 100,000 Lives Campaign

www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/Campaign/

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and other organizations are convinced that a remarkably few proven interventions, implemented on a wide enough scale, can avoid 100,000 deaths over the next 18 months, and every year thereafter.
The Campaign IHI will join hands with other leading American health care organizations in launching an unprecedented 100,000 Lives Campaign, which will disseminate powerful improvement tools, with supporting expertise, throughout the American health care system.
This campaign aims to enlist thousands of hospitals across the country in a commitment to implement changes in care that have been proven to prevent avoidable deaths. IHI starting with these six changes:

· Deploy Rapid Response Teams…at the first sign of patient decline
· Deliver Reliable, Evidence-Based Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction…to prevent deaths from heart attack
· Prevent Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)…by implementing medication reconciliation
· Prevent Central Line Infections…by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps called the “Central Line Bundle”
· Prevent Surgical Site Infections…by reliably delivering the correct perioperative antibiotics at the proper time
· Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia…by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps called the “Ventilator Bundle”