If you are a hospital interested in joining this project contact Chris Goeschel at cgoesch1@jhmi.edu.
She will connect you with the lead agency in your state and make certain you get all the information you need to get started.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report. Below are links to the reports, articles in the news related to the findings, our work, and reporting of BSI rates, as well as an interactive map listing hospitals participating in the On the CUSP : STOP BSI Project.
-ON THE CUSP: STOP BSI Recognizes May 5th, 2010 as “Save Lives: Clean Your Hands” Day
-Dr. Peter Pronovost - Open Letter to Hospital CEOs
-QSRG - CEO/Executive Checklist
-AHRQ - National Healthcare Quality Report
-AHRQ - National Healthcare Disparities Report
-New York Times - Hospital Infection Problem Persists
-USA Today - Report ‘Very little progress’ made against serious hospital infections
30,000 to 62,000 people die due to catheter-related blood stream infections every year in the United States and nearly 3 billion dollars are spent on these infections world-wide. Stop BSI aims to eliminate catheter-related blood stream infections and their associated costs. Similar efforts in Michigan were successful in nearly eliminating these infections by reducing the median rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections to zero. Stop BSI will expand these efforts nation-wide. We invite consumers, insurers, employers, clinicians, and administrators to join this effort. Together we will save countless lives, prevent suffering, and reduce healthcare costs.
Dr. Peter Pronovost, professor at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and Richard Lilford, professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Birmingham in England, address the scientific problems and methodological weaknesses of using standardized mortality rates to judge hospital performance. Follow the links below to learn more.
Using hospital mortality rates to judge hospital performance: a bad idea that just won't go away
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/apr19_2/c2016?eaf
Assessing the quality of hospitals
Learning Accountability for Patient Outcomes
Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD
