This level of care is provided during a severe episode of illness (such as surgery or injury).
What is Acute Care?
Pneumonia that presents more than 48 hours after endotracheal intubation.
What is Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia (VAP)?
This measures changes in performances with the goal of achieving desired results.
What is performance improvement?
During Wartime, this person was one of the first to have used an ICU approach.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Care of an individual health problem
What is care at the Micro level?
The First cohort study on C V D to incorporate women.
What is the Framingham Heart study?
This term provides short- hand testing of change.
What is the PDSA cycle?
Study of the frequency, distribution, cause, and control of disease and injury
What is Epidemiology?
The level of prevention commonly delivered in hospitals
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Implementation of Mammograms, Colonoscopies, and vision examinations.
What are types of secondary prevention?
This organization developed patient safety initiatives based on the IOM Report.
What is the Institute for Healthcare Improvement?
What is aseptic technique?
Examples are Length of stays, infection rates and re-admission rates.
What is population data in acute care setting?
Doing this Task for 20 seconds while singing Happy Birthday twice
What is hand washing?
Data points that capture trends for infection rates.
What are surveillance methods?
Caused by pathogens acquired as a consequence of a health-care intervention.
What are Health Care Acquired Infections (HAI's)?
Example includes education on flu vaccinations in a community.
What is Macro health?
This pathway reduces the patient’s surgical stress response, and facilitates recovery.
What is ERAS: Early Recovery After Surgery protocol?
This part of the cycle asks "Does it work?"
What is the "Study" part of the PDSA Cycle?
Life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.
What is Sepsis?