St. Luke's Medical Center: bottom-up approach to quality improvement in pneumonia care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Author(s):
- Lashbrook, Aimee, author
- Contributor(s):
- Lashbrook, Aimee. Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, December 2009
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospital Administration Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Pneumonia -- prevention & control Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care Anti-Bacterial Agents -- therapeutic use Education, Nursing Influenza Vaccines Leadership Medical Records Systems, Computerized Organizational Culture Physician's Role Pneumococcal Vaccines Pneumonia -- drug therapy Quality Improvement Smoking Cessation Vaccination Humans Iowa United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Sioux City, Iowa. Type: Private, not-for-profit hospital. Beds: 154 staffed beds. Distinction: Top 3 percent in a composite of seven pneumonia process-of-care measures, among more than 2,800 hospitals (more than half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: April 2007 through March 2008. See Appendix for full methodology. This case study describes the strategies and factors that appear to contribute to high performance on pneumonia care measures at St. Luke's Medical Center. It is based on information obtained from interviews with key hospital personnel, publicly available information, and materials provided by the hospital during July and August 2009.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1PDF file (7 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101547436 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101547436