McCannon J. The key to winning the Campaign. Healthcare Executive. 2007 Sept/Oct:61-65.

This article is the first in a series by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about the role of leadership in transforming quality and safety. This first article discusses the importance of executive leadership in transforming care and IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign. The series addresses a variety of topics including board engagement, organizational quality assessment, and engaging with physician leaders.

McCannon CJ, Hackbarth AD, Griffin FA. Miles to go: An introduction to the 5 Million Lives Campaign. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2007 Aug;33(8):477-484.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI’s) 5 Million Lives Campaign targets a reduction of five million instances of harm from December 2006 through December 2008. Together with complementary partner initiatives, the Campaign is intended to act as a major driver of national improvement. This article, the first in a series, gives an overview of the predecessor 100,000 Lives Campaign, and describes the 5 Million Lives Campaign and its six new interventions.

Hader R. Best-practice protocols: Get your board on board. Nursing Management. 2007 June;38(6):32-36.

This article, the first in a series, describes engaging hospital boards and senior leaders in quality and safety initiatives to accelerate improvement. The series presents a nursing management perspective on the six interventions recommended by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as part of its 5 Million Lives Campaign to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over a two-year period. 

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Zablocki E. IHI calls on boards to lead on quality and safety: An interview with Jim Conway. Great Boards. Summer 2007;7(2):1-5.

Jim Conway, Senior Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), discusses the essential role of hospital boards in leading and accelerating safety and quality efforts. "Get the Board on Board" is one intervention in IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign.

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Cantor JC, Belloff D, Schoen C, How SKH, McCarthy D. The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance. New York, New York: The Commonwealth Fund; June 2007.

This report features the first-ever comprehensive comparison of US health system performance. All 50 states are compared to benchmarks and ranked on 32 performance indicators of access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and "healthy lives." Some states ranked highly on multiple indicators, but none scored top marks in every area. The report concludes that federal and state action in key areas is necessary to achieve higher levels of performance and value.

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Berwick D, Kabcenell A, Nolan T. No Toyota yet, but a start. A cadre of providers seeks to transform an inefficient industry—before it’s too late. Modern Healthcare. 2005 Jan 31:18-19.

This five-part article series looks at the Pursuing Perfection program and the health care organizations participating in this multi-year initiative to transform health care. [All five articles in the series are included in this document.]

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Designing the 21st Century Hospital: Environmental Leadership for Healthier Patients, Facilities, and Communities. Concord, California: The Center for Health Design with Health Care Without Harm. September 2006.

What is the role of hospitals in the 21st century in improving patient and community health? The Center for Health Design, in partnership with Health Care Without Harm, explored the environmental impact hospitals have on their patients, staff, and communities, publishing six white papers as a result.

Reinertsen JL, Gosfield AG, Rupp W, Whittington JW. Engaging Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2007.

IHI Innovation Series white paper

This white paper presents a framework for building a written plan for physician engagement in quality and safety. It includes tools to help hospital leaders assess the degree of difficulty in engaging physicians and to prioritize initiatives for which physician engagement is essential.

Pryor DB, Tolchin SF, Hendrich A, Thomas CS, Tersigni AR. The clinical transformation of Ascension Health: Eliminating all preventable injuries and deaths. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2006 June;32(6):299-308.

In 2002 Ascension Health, a 67-hospital not-for-profit health care system, embarked on a journey of clinical transformation to eliminate preventable injuries or deaths. This transformational change implies a much greater pace of change than that reflected in traditional, incremental change processes. Their improvement activities focused on eight priorities for action: JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals; preventable mortality; adverse drug events; falls; pressure ulcers; surgical complications; nosocomial infections; and perinatal safety. [This article is the first in a series.]

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Mazza F, Kitchens J, Kerr S, Markovich A, Best M, Sparkman LP. Eliminating birth trauma at Ascension Health. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2007 Jan;33(1):15-24.

Ascension Health identified perinatal safety as one of eight priorities for action in a system-wide effort to achieve zero preventable injuries and deaths by July 2008. Three alpha sites developed and implemented transformational practices aimed at eliminating preventable birth trauma.