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Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study.

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Hsu, Y-J; Kosinski, AS; Wallace, AS; Saha-Chaudhuri, P; Chang, BH; Speck, K; Rosen, MA; Gurses, AP; Xie, A; Huang, S; Cameron, DE ...
Published in: J Comp Eff Res
January 2019

AIM: To assess the utility of using external databases for quality improvement (QI) evaluations in the context of an innovative QI collaborative aimed to reduce three infections and improve patient safety across the cardiac surgery service line. METHODS: We compared changes in each outcome between 15 intervention hospitals (infection reduction protocols plus safety culture intervention) and 52 propensity score-matched hospitals (feedback only). RESULTS: Improvement trends in several outcomes among the intervention hospitals were not statistically different from those in comparison hospitals. CONCLUSION: Using external databases such as those of professional societies may permit comparative effectiveness assessment by providing concurrent comparison groups, additional outcome measures and longer follow-up. This can better inform evaluation of continuous QI in healthcare organizations.

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J Comp Eff Res

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EISSN

2042-6313

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

8

Issue

1

Start / End Page

21 / 32

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Humans
  • Hospitals
  • Databases, Factual
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Hsu, Y.-J., Kosinski, A. S., Wallace, A. S., Saha-Chaudhuri, P., Chang, B. H., Speck, K., … Marsteller, J. A. (2019). Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study. J Comp Eff Res, 8(1), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.2217/cer-2018-0051
Hsu, Yea-Jen, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Amelia S. Wallace, Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri, Bickey H. Chang, Kathleen Speck, Michael A. Rosen, et al. “Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study.J Comp Eff Res 8, no. 1 (January 2019): 21–32. https://doi.org/10.2217/cer-2018-0051.
Hsu Y-J, Kosinski AS, Wallace AS, Saha-Chaudhuri P, Chang BH, Speck K, et al. Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study. J Comp Eff Res. 2019 Jan;8(1):21–32.
Hsu, Yea-Jen, et al. “Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study.J Comp Eff Res, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 21–32. Pubmed, doi:10.2217/cer-2018-0051.
Hsu Y-J, Kosinski AS, Wallace AS, Saha-Chaudhuri P, Chang BH, Speck K, Rosen MA, Gurses AP, Xie A, Huang S, Cameron DE, Thompson DA, Marsteller JA. Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study. J Comp Eff Res. 2019 Jan;8(1):21–32.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Comp Eff Res

DOI

EISSN

2042-6313

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

8

Issue

1

Start / End Page

21 / 32

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Humans
  • Hospitals
  • Databases, Factual
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences