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Increasing early referral to palliative care in patients with advanced cancer
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"In a major cancer center surgical oncology clinic (P), does an embedded PC social worker (I) compared to no embedded PC social worker (C) improve early referral to PC or patients with advanced cancer (O), over a six-month ...
Increasing mobility in pulmonary medicine patients in the medical intensive care
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"This project aims to improve progressive activities for our patients as evidenced by: increased activity events (nursing and therapy) per patient by 20 percent, reduced Ventilator Associated Pneumonia(VAP) rate from 0.82 ...
Increasing utilization of advance directives
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"Increase patient utilization of advance directives within the Medicaid and Medicare populations in the state of Missouri."--Aim
Improving the transition process for patients with congesitve heart failure
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"We aim to facilitate the initiation of CHF care and transition processes for patients with CHF as early as possible in their hospitalization at MUHC. We plan to accomplish this through the development of a CHF early ...
Increasing access to developmental care for infants with moderately low birth weight after discharge from the nicu
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"To increase the post-discharge, consultative physical therapy services provided to infants of moderately low birth weight to at least 4 infants per month by 4/15/2016."--Aim statement.
Increasing MUHealthE enrollment through staff competition
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"We aim to increase the number of patients utilizing the MUHealthE patient portal by increasing the number of patients we invite. This is important because it provides easier access for patients to obtain their health ...
Emergency department super-utilizer improvement project
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2017)
"To decrease the number of Emergency Department (ED) visits (and related costs) by 20 percent after the placement of a emergency acute care plan placed into the patient's chart to be used at each ED visit. This plan will ...
Direct cost savings of antipsychotic long acting injection replacement programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"Antipsychotic Long-Acting Injections (LAIs) have become a popular treatment option in patients with mental illness who struggle with medication compliance. Allow for deep intramuscular administration of medication every ...
Encouraging surgical patients to take initiative to ambulate
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2017)
"Increase patient ambulation to a minimum of three times per day on 7W Surgical Specialties. At the start of the study, ambulation of three times per day was 19 percent. The goal was to improve ambulation of three times ...
Effect on adverse events reporting related to duplicate anticoagulation orders after
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2017)
"To decrease PatientSafety Net (PSN) reports for inpatient duplicate anticoagulation orders at MUHC by at least 50 percent."
Electronic capture of CMS stroke measures for external reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"Prior to 1/1/16, achieve at least 90 percent capture of electronic documentation for CMS stroke quality of care compliance and reporting by developing structured data fields that clinicians will use."
Development of the Mizzou performance evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"Goal is to provide the desired data to the physician in a format that is easily understood by the patient."--Background.
"FastER"
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"By March 31, 2016 University Emergency Department (ED) will have a 50 percent increase in the NRC Patient Satisfaction 'overall rate this facility' completed by University Hospital Emergency Care patients by implementing ...
Improved patient satisfaction through structured interdisciplinary bedside rounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"We aim to increase the occurrence of joint physician and nurse rounding and improve Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey results for the key question 'doctor/nurse communication' ...
Implementation of a pharmacist review of patients with IV antibiotics at discharge
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"Outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy (OPAT) allows patients to receive intravenous treatment at home rather than remain hospitalized for the duration of therapy. Multiple studies have demonstrated that OPAT is safe, ...
Implementing an electronic health record decision support to reduce unnecessary clostridium difficile testing
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"Our aim is to reduce the standardized infection ratio (SIR) for labID events that are declared hospital onset by the National Healthcare Safety Network by 10 percent. In additional, our aim is to reduce overall C diff ...
Implementation of a pharmacist facilitated discharge medication review
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"Implementation of a pharmacist discharge medication review at University Hospital"--Purpose.
Implementing a nursing driven dysphagia screening protocol aimed at post-orthopaedicprocedure patients 65 years of age and older
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2016)
"A successful project will increase our ability to identify active cases of dysphagia before the patient aspirates. This recognition can directly decrease mortality from hospital acquired aspiration pneumonia."--Aim statement.
Implementation of electronic documentation into an established warfarin ambulatory monitoring service
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"Our goal was to enhance and standardize the documentation of patients on Warfarin managed by the pharmacist run Warfarin Ambulatory Management Service (WAM/Coumadin Clinic) using Cerner PowerChart Form Notes. This process ...
Implementation of psoralen treated platelets : improving patient tranfusion safety
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2018)
"By May 1, 2017, we will reduce platelet transfusion reactions by 20 percent through implementation of psoralen treated platelets at University Hospital and Women's and Children's Hospital."--Aim statement.