| Title | Transforming safety and effectiveness in pediatric hospital care locally and nationally. | | Author(s) | Mandel KE, Muething SE, Schoettker PJ, Kotagal UR | | Institution | Physician-Hospital Organization, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Mail Location 7023, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. keith.mandel@cchmc.org | | Source | Pediatr Clin North Am 2009 Aug; 56(4):905-18. | | MeSH | Child
Efficiency, Organizational
Evidence-Based Medicine
Hospitals, Pediatric
Humans
Leadership
Models, Organizational
Ohio
Organizational Case Studies
Organizational Innovation
Pneumonia
Public Policy
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Respiration, Artificial
Safety Management
United States
| | Abstract | Achieving dramatic, sustainable improvements in the safety and effectiveness of care for children requires a transformational approach to how hospitals individually focus on improvement and learn from each other to achieve national goals. The authors describe a theoretic framework for transformation that includes setting system-level priorities, aligning measures with each priority, identifying breakthrough targets, testing interventions to get results, and spreading successful interventions throughout the organization. Essential key drivers of transformation include leadership, building will, transparency, a business case for quality, patient and family engagement, improvement infrastructure, improvement capability, and reliability and standardization. Improving national system-level measures requires each hospital to pursue its own transformation journey while collaborating with hospitals and other organizations. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19660634 |
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