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Safety Culture
alphabet soup
P4P
Infection Prevention
The Feds
100
Previously it was affectionately known as Peminic the new system is Verge.
What is an event reporting system.
100
An infection that occurs after surgery in the part of the body where the surgery took place. Used in HAC in 2016.
What is surgical site infection(SSI)
100
The first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care.
What is HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems)?
100
Gloves, Masks, gowns, eye protection, aprons, eye shields, and booties are eamples
What is Personal protective equipment (PPE)?
100
Federal regulations with which particular healthcare facilities must comply in order to participate – that is, receive funding from – the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the largest payors for healthcare in the U.S.
What are Conditions of Participation (CoP)?
200
Having the right information at the right time and in the right form in order to engage in value based healthcare decision making.
What is healthcare transparency?
200
Our rate has decreased significantly by teamwork in reducing foley days and the amount palced.
What is Catheter Associated Urinary tract infection(CAUTI)?
200
Our current projected Penalty for 2016 is $1.3 million for SFMC.
What is Hospital acquired conditions
200
The easiest and most effective way to prevent the spread of infections.
What is hand hygiene?
200
Uses information from the organization to follow the experience of care, treatment, or services for a number of patients through the organization’s entire health care delivery process
What are tracers?
300
Assess the intended and actual implementation of the process to identify the steps in the process where there is, or may be, undesirable variation (i.e., what engineers call potential "failure modes")
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
300
Bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It is also called oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
What is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?
300
For Blue Cross what is the biggest opportunity for clinical outcomes.
What is readmission?
300
This spore forming organism can be found in most hospitals and is very difficult to kill.
What is C. diff?
300
These goals have become a critical method by which The Joint Commission promotes and enforces major changes in patient safety. The criteria used for determining the value of these goals, and required revisions to them, are based on the merit of their impact, cost, and effectiveness. Developed by voluntary reporting of sentinel events to the Joint Commission.
What is National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)?
400
An environment where negligence is identified and discipline is applied appropriately after a systematic review of the error. Applying the unsafe acts algorithm to determine if the error is blameless or culpable.
What is a just culture?
400
A recent CDC study has the cost associated with this event as $16.500.
What is CLABSI
400
Holds providers accountable for either absolute success or improvement against established performance measures via withhold/payback structure; examples are HCAHPS, Readmissions, core measures, and PSI-90.
What is Value based purchasing for healthcare?
400
It sis considered the direst part of the isolation gown.
What is the front from shoulders to mid thigh?
400
A screening tool to evaluate all practitioners who have been granted privileges and to identify those clinicians who might be delivering an unacceptable quality of care
What is Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE)?
500
preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience, and reluctance to simplify.
What is high reliability?
500
Bacteria that have become resistant to multiple antibiotics, and these antibiotics can no longer be used to control or kill the bacteria.
What is multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO)?
500
The target for the incidence of CAUTI and or CLABSI.
What is zero?
500
Alcohol has been found to less effective than this agent for spore eradication in the hospital setting.
What is soap and water?
500
The basis of an objective evaluation process that can help health care organizations measure, assess and improve performance. These are the basis of the Joint Commission Survey.
What are the Joint Commission Standards