Using the CLABSI Opportunity Estimator to Educate, Engage, and Evaluate Driving Your CLABSI Rate to...

Using the CLABSI Opportunity Estimator to Educate, Engage, and Evaluate

Driving Your CLABSI Rate to Zero

Presented by: Jordan Duval-Arnould, MPH

July 20, 2010

Overview

• The Opportunity Estimator (O/E)• Integrating O/E into CUSP activities

– Science of safety• Educate your staff

– Senior executive partnership• Engage senior leaders

– Tools to improve• Evaluate performance

• O/E in action• Discussion/questions

The Opportunity Estimator

• What is it?• How does it work?• Where is it?

The Opportunity Estimator

• What is it?

The Opportunity Estimator

• What is it?

The Opportunity Estimator

• How does it work?

The Opportunity Estimator

• How does it work?

The Opportunity Estimator

• Where is it?

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/quality_safety_research_group/our_projects/stop_bsi/toolkits_resources/clabsi_estimator.html

Integrating Into CUSP Activities

• Science of safety & O/E to educate staff – Building CUSP teams or new hire/staff transfer– O/E before watching video– O/E after watching video

Integrating Into CUSP Activities

• Senior executive partnership & O/E to engage leadership – Conversation starter

Integrating Into CUSP Activities• Senior executive partnership & O/E to engage

leadership – Building a business case– Infections = Lives= Money = Beds = Missed

Opportunities = …

Integrating Into CUSP Activities

• Tools to improve & O/E to evaluate performance– Incorporated into monthly CUSP meetings– Discuss past performance – Discuss goals for current performance– Discuss goals for future performance

Integrating Into CUSP Activities

– Past performance– Did performance improve? Why?– Did performance worsen? Why?

Integrating Into CUSP Activities

– When discussing current performance, ask• What can we shoot for next month?• What does this mean in tangible terms -- “I think we can

save 10 lives in the next months.”

O/E in Action

• These data are the infections and central-line days for the baseline period for the collaborative of those that have submitted

• 220 preventable deaths• 95 million dollars needlessly spent • 14,312 additional days in the hospital

Discussion/Questions