Open AccessPreventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in the Intensive Care Unit: Application of High-Reliability Principles
Author(s) -
Beth McCraw,
Terri Crutcher,
Shea Polancich,
Pam Jones
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal for healthcare quality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1945-1474
pISSN - 1062-2551
DOI - 10.1097/jhq.0000000000000164
Subject(s) - central line , reliability (semiconductor) , intensive care unit , health care , quality management , medicine , quality (philosophy) , acute care , intensive care , nursing , intensive care medicine , operations management , engineering , political science , management system , power (physics) , physics , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics , law
This department column highlights translation of research into healthcare quality practice. Achieving the highest quality in healthcare requires organizations to understand care delivery and to proactively mitigate risks in care delivery processes. The purpose of this article is to describe a quality initiative that used principles of high reliability to develop a zero tolerance culture for central line-associated bloodstream infections in an intensive care unit at an independent, nonprofit acute care community hospital.