These reports show results from organizations working with IHI in many areas, including programs such as IMPACT Learning and Innovation Communities; initiatives such as Pursuing Perfection, Transforming Care at the Bedside, and the Safer Patients Initiative; IHI's global projects; and the work of IHI's Strategic Partners.

A team of IHI content experts has reviewed these reports and determined that they are compelling examples of current results from organizations working with IHI.

Improvement

Chronic Care

Critical Care

Developing Countries

Flow

Healthcare-Associated Infections

Medical-Surgical Care

Office Practices

Patient Safety

Perinatal Care

Reliability

Improvement

• Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative [Mar 06]

Chronic Care

• Innovations in Planned Care at a Cherokee Nation Clinic [Nov 08]
• Reducing Obesity with Improved Self-Management Support [Oct 08]

Critical Care

• Evidence-Based Practices Reduce the Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rate for ICU Patients [Aug 09]

• Rapid Response Team Decreases Code Events and Unexpected Patient Deaths Outside the ICU [Aug 09]

• Flexible ICU Visitation Hours Improve Family Involvement in Care [July 09]

• Early Goal Directed Therapy Reduces Sepsis Complications and Mortality [May 09]
• Reducing Average Length of Stay on Mechanical Ventilation Using Bundles and Mobility [Apr 09]
• Maintaining Glucose Control in the ICU: Implementing Standard Order Sets Tailored for Specific Patient Populations [Mar 09] 
• Improving ICU Care: Reducing Complications from Ventilators and Central Lines [Jul 08]
• Decreasing Harm to Patients by Standardizing Care [Jul 08]
• Saving Lives: Simple Interventions DO Really Help in the ICU [Apr 08]
• Sepsis: Putting the Pieces Together at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis [Jun 07]
• Reducing Complications from Ventilators and Central Lines at Swedish Medical Center [Mar 06]
• Reducing Complications from Ventilators and Central Lines in the ICU: Strong Health  [Mar 06]
• Reducing Complications from Ventilators and Central Lines in the ICU: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital  [Mar 06]
• Prevent Avoidable Codes with a Medical Emergency Team  [Mar 06]

Developing Countries

• Improving Access and Quality of HIV/AIDS Care in Eastern Cape, South Africa  [Mar 06]

Flow

• Improving Patient Flow with Real-Time Capacity and Demand Matching [July 09]
• Improving Inpatient and Emergency Department Flow for Veterans [Oct 08]
• Reducing ED Door-to-Doctor Time by Implementing Lean Process and Tools [May 08]
• Patient First: Efficient Patient Flow Management Impact on the ED [Mar 08]

Healthcare-Associated Infections

• Reducing Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile on a Medical-Renal Unit [Jan 09]
• Reducing Healthcare-Associated MRSA Infections on a Surgical Unit [Dec 08]
• Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital [Sep 08]
• Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections in a Skilled Care Unit [Aug 08]

Medical-Surgical Care

• Champions Improve Staff Education and Compliance with Pressure Ulcer Prevention Strategies [May 09]
• The ABCs of Reducing Harm from Falls [Feb 09]
• Reducing Harm from Falls with Teamwork and Focused Assessment [Jan 09]
• Preventing Falls in the GI Surgical Unit  [Mar 06]

Office Practices

• Reliability in Planned Care: Office Practice Redesign [Jun 08]
• Outpatient-Centered Care: Quality, Access, Efficiency, and Patient Satisfaction [Apr 08]
• Improving Access and Efficiency in Primary Care at York Hospital Community Health Center  [Mar 06]
• Improving Access and Efficiency in Primary Care at HealthServe Community Health Center  [Mar 06]
• Improving Access in Primary Care — Virtually  [Mar 06]

Patient Safety

• Reducing Surgical Complications for Elective Surgery Inpatients [Oct 08]
• Highly Reliable Surgical Teams (HRST): Improving Teamwork and Surgical Outcomes with Structured Briefings in a Large HMO [Apr 08]
• Medication Reconciliation Across the Continuum [Sept 06]
• Reducing Surgical Site Infections  [Mar 06]

Perinatal Care

• Reducing Birth-Related Trauma and Liability Exposure  [Jun 08]
• Improving Safety Within the Birth Center [May 08]

Reliability

• Reducing Door-to-Balloon Time for AMI Patients [Jul 08]